Research

Publications

• The Impact of Mandatory Military Service on Labor Outcomes. Evidence from Spain. Journal of Applied Economics (2025)

• School Starting Age and the Choice of Elementary School (with Eugenio Giolito). Empirical Economics. 2024. 10.1007/s00181-023-02546-z

• Building nations through internal mobility: Evidence from Spanish conscripts (with Antoni-Italo De Moragas, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González), in Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures. CEPR/VOXEU E-book, 2023, edited by D. Rohner and E. Zhuravskaya.

• Minimum Age Requirements and the Impact of School Choice (with Eugenio Giolito). SERIEs. Journal of the Spanish Economic Association. August, 2022. [Working Paper PDF]  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-022-00267-7

• Intergroup Contact and Nation Building: Evidence from Military Service in Spain (with Antoni-Italo De Moragas, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González). Volume 201, September 2021, Journal of Public Economics. [Working Paper PDF]; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104477 

• Early Impacts of college aid (with Eugenio Giolito), Economics of Education Review, Volume 63, April 2018. [Working Paper PDF]; doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.02.003

• “The impact of age of entry on academic progression,” (with Eugenio Giolito) in Crato, Nuno and Paruolo, Paolo (eds.). Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019. [Working Paper PDF]

•  The Toll of Fertility on Mother's Wellbeing. (with Marianne Simonsen). Journal of Health Economics Volume 31 (5) 2012. [Working Paper PDF]; doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.05.006

•  Impacts of Family Size on the Family as a Whole: Evidence from Developing World. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Advances). Volume 12(1) 2012. [Working Paper PDF]; doi: 10.1515/1935-1682.2850

•  The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime. (with Eugenio Giolito).  Journal of Labor Economics Volume 30 (1) 2012. [Working Paper PDF]; doi: 10.1086/662137

•  Can we still learn something from the relationship between Fertility and Mother’s Employment? Evidence from Developing Countries. Demography Volume 49 (1) 2012.  [Working Paper PDF]; doi: 10.1007/s13524-011-0076-6

•  Impact of Family Size on Investment in Child Quality. Multiple Births as Natural Experiment. The Journal of Human Resources. Volume 41, Number 4 (Fall) 2006. [Working Paper PDF]; doi:10.3368/jhr.XLI.4.738

• Asignación de Recursos en los Hogares Pobres de Chile (with Dante Contreras), Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., vol. 36(108), 1999, pages 727-760

Working Papers

• Geographical Mobility as a Bridge to Opportunity: Evidence from the Spanish Military Service (with Antoni-Italo De Moragas, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González). [Working Paper PDF, soon!]

• From Schmattes to Riches: Intergenerational Mobility of American Jewish Immigrants in the Interbellum (with Stéphane Mechoulan and Yutong Yao). [Working Paper PDF] 

• The Impact of Raising the Minimum Legal Drinking Age on Academic Achievement and Risky Behaviour: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Approach (with Luis Alonso-Armesto and Warn N. Lekfuangfu). [Working Paper PDF]

Permanent Working Papers

• How Unilateral Divorce Affects Children (with Eugenio Giolito). [Working Paper PDF] 

• The Effects of Children on Mothers’ Employment and Earnings: Evidence from Spain (with Alfonso Alba-Ramírez). [Working Paper PDF]

•  Season of Birth and Mother and Child Characteristics: Evidence from Spain and Chile (with Alfonso Alba-Ramírez). [Working Paper PDF]