Research

My areas of interest are:

• Development Economics

• Political Economy

• Human Capital (Education and Health)

Refereed Publications:

1. "Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign. ". Joint with Gianmarco León and Dijana Zejcirovic, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17 (1): 181–215. 

2. "Empowering College Students through Leadership Roles in their Communities: Experimental evidence from Peru". Joint with Marcos Agurto, Sandra Buzinsky, and Javier Torres. Journal of Human Capital, 18:4, 2024

3. "The Effects of Electrification on Employment in Rural Peru". Joint with Rosamaría Dasso . IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4:6

4.  "Do Benefit Recipients Change Their Labor Supply After Receiving the Cash Transfer?  Evidence from the Peruvian JUNTOS Program". Joint with Victor Saldarriaga.  IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3: 2

Current working papers:

1. "Remote Parent Coaching in Preschool Mathematics: Evidence from Peru". Joint with Emma Naslund-Hadley, Carolina Mendez and Juan Hernández-Agramonte, IDB Working Paper 01356, Washington DC, August 2022 (R & R, Economics of Education Review)

2. "Prenatal Exposure to Marijuana and Infant Health in the US". Lima School of Economics Working Paper N. 5, October 2019

3. "The role of Pharmaceutical Promotion to Physicians in the Opioid Epidemic". Joint with Dijana Zejcirovic 

4. "Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru". Joint with Hugo Ñopo and Rosamaría Dasso . IZA Discussion Paper N.8928, March 2015 

Work in Progress:

1. Breaking the gridlock: Zero-sum thinking, identity and mutually beneficial reforms. Joint with Kai Gehring, Matteo Grigoletto, Yuri Solari, and Arne Weiss. Status: Ongoing data collection

2. Narrative intervention: the case of production technology for Gold Mining in Peru. Joint with Kai Gehring, Matteo Grigoletto and Arne Weiss. Status: Ongoing data collection

3. Understanding Artisanal Mining. Joint with Mathieu Couttenier, Kai Gehring and Arne Weiss. Status: Ongoing data collection

4. Challenges and Opportunities for formalization of artisanal mining. Joint with Stefano Jud, Quynh Nguyen, Elena Borasino, Kai Gehring, Matteo Grigoletto and Arne Weiss. Status: Ongoing data collection

Dormant Working papers:

• "Local festivals and food consumption among the poor". July 2015

• "Temptation Goods and Conditional Cash Transfers in Peru". Joint with Rosamaría Dasso . First version: September 2013. 

• "Measurement Errors and Multidimensional Poverty". Joint with Cesar Calvo . Oxford Poverty & Human Initiative (OPHI) Working Paper N. 50, January 2012