Fertility and Population Health
Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers
(with Osea Giuntella and Giulia La Mattina)
Journal of Human Capital, 2023, Vol. 17, No. 2: 284–313.
Natural Disasters and Early Human Development: Hurricane Catarina and Infant Health in Brazil
(with Ines Lee and Victor Hugo de Oliveira)
Journal of Human Resources, 2023, Vol. 58, No. 3: 819-851.
On the Value of Birth Weight
(with Damian Clarke and Sonia Oreffice)
Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2021, Vol. 83:1130–1159.
OPEN ACCESS.
The Demand for Season of Birth
(with Damian Clarke and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, Vol. 34, No.5: 707–723.
OPEN ACCESS.
Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data
(with José Raimundo Carvalho and Victor Hugo de Oliveira)
Economics and Human Biology, 2018, No. 30: 14–23.
Son Preference and Gender-Biased Breastfeeding in Pakistan
(with Naima Hafeez)
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 2: 179–215.
[Lead article]
[Link to the paper][Supplementary materials]
The Hidden Costs of Terrorism: The Effects on Health at Birth
(with Pedro Ródenas-Serrano)
Journal of Health Economics, 2017, Vol. 56, 47–60.
[Link to the paper][Online Appendix]
The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
(with Carlos Bozzoli)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, Vol. 96, No. 3: 550–562.
* Web Appendix: Supplementary Material
* Additional material: La evolución del peso al nacer en Argentina durante el período 1997-2009 (with Carlos Bozzoli and Federico Todeschini)
[Link to this note]
Early-Life Environment and Adult Stature in Brazil: An Analysis for Cohorts born between 1950 and 1980
(with Victor Hugo de Oliveira)
Economics and Human Biology, 2014, Vol. 15, No. 4: 67–80.
Infant Mortality and Adult Stature in Spain
(with Carlos Bozzoli and Mariano Bosch)
Social Science and Medicine, 2011, Vol. 72, No. 11: 1893–1903.
Physical Activity and Obesity in Spain: Evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey
(with Jaume Garcia and Sonia Oreffice)
The Economics of Sport, Health, and Happiness: The Promotion of Well-being through Sporting Activities, 2011. P. Rodriguez, S. Kesenne and B. Humphreys (Eds.), Chapter 3: 54–80. Series: New Horizons in the Economics of Sport. Edward Elgar.
[Link to the chapter]
Adult Height and Childhood Disease
(with Carlos Bozzoli and Angus Deaton)
Demography, 2009, Vol. 46, No. 4: 647–669.
[Lead article]
Income and Body Mass Index in Europe
(with Jaume Garcia)
Economics and Human Biology, 2009, Vol. 7, No. 1: 73–83.
Measurement
The Evolution of Adult Height across Spanish Regions, 1950-1980: A New Source of Data
(with Carlos Bozzoli and Mariano Bosch)
Economics and Human Biology, 2012, Vol. 10, No. 3: 264–275.
The Reliability of Self-reported Home Values in a Developing Country Context
(with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
Journal of Housing Economics, 2009, Vol. 18, No. 4: 311–324.
The Evolution of Adult Height in Europe: A Brief Note
(with Jaume Garcia)
Economics and Human Biology, 2007, Vol. 5, No. 2: 340–349.
Other Topics
Financial Contagion and Attention Allocation
(with Jordi Mondria)
Economic Journal, 2013, Vol. 123, No. 568: 429–454.
Policy Evaluation
The Effect of Increasing Women's Autonomy on Primary and Repeated Caesarean Sections in Brazil
(with Victor Hugo De Oliveira and Ines Lee)
Health Economics, 2022, Vol. 31, No. 8: 1800–1804.
OPEN ACCESS.
Paving the Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects
(with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, Vol. 98, No.2: 254–267.
* Web Appendix: Supplementary Material
* Additional material: Description of the Acayucan Standards of Living Survey (with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
[Link to this note]
Consumption
Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
(with Johannes Wohlfart)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, Vol. 129: 172–194.
Relative Concerns on Visible Consumption: A Source of Economic Distortions
(with Francesco Turino)
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2016, Vol. 16, No. 1: 33–45.
Matching
A Quantitative Review of Matching Papers in Economics:
Evolution, Diversity, and Gender
(with Alejandro Robinson-Cortés and Ye Yuan)
Forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press. Replication package available on Harvard Dataverse.
The effect of education on spousal education: a genetic approach
(with Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, and Sonia Oreffice)
Labour Economics, 2021, Vol. 71:102023
OPEN ACCESS.
Bidimensional Matching with Heterogeneous Preferences:
Education and Smoking in the Marriage Market
(with Pierre-André Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, Vol. 16, No. 1: 161–198.
[Link to the paper] [Supplementary material]
Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
(with Pierre-André Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016, Vol. 82, No. 4: 399–421.
[Invited submission]
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market
(with Pierre-André Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice)
Journal of Political Economy, 2012, Vol. 120, No. 4: 659–695.
Erratum: Journal of Political Economy, 2020: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/710838
Anthropometry and Socioeconomics among Couples: Evidence in the United States
(with Sonia Oreffice)
Economics and Human Biology, 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3: 373–384.
Wages and Labor Supply
Beauty, Body Size and Wages: Evidence from a Unique Data Set
(with Sonia Oreffice)
Economics and Human Biology, 2016, Vol. 22: 24–34.
Fat Spouses and Hours of Work: Are Body and Pareto Weights Correlated?
(with Sonia Oreffice)
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:6.
Preferences, Comparative Advantage, and Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Routinization
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2011, Vol. 73, No. 2: 207–229.
Obesity, Employment and Wages in Europe
(with Jaume Garcia)
Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 2006. Vol. 17, The Economics of Obesity, K. Bolin and J. Cawley (Eds.), Chapter 8: 187–217. Elsevier, Emerald Group. [Link to the chapter]
Comments/Introductions
Angus Deaton: El Nobel de la Precisión (in Spanish)
Revista Española de Física, 2016, Vol. 30, No. 1: 37–39.
[Invited comment]
[Link to the comment]
Introduction to the special issue in honor of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton: “consumption, poverty and inequality in the household”
Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 1: 1–3.