Research

My areas of interest are:

• Development Economics

• Economics of Education

• Health Economics

Refereed Publications:

1. "Policy-Making, Trust and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Nationwide Family Planning Program". Joint with Gianmarco León and Dijana Zejcirovic, Forthcoming at  AEJ: Economic Policy

2. "Empowering College Students through Community Service: Experimental evidence from Peru". Joint with Marcos Agurto, Sandra Buzinsky, and Javier Torres. Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Capital

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

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. High Expectations?  Informational frictions among young job-seekers in Peru. Joint with Victor Saldarriaga and Juan José Díaz

2. Behavioral interventions to increase female attendance to health appointments? Evidence from Ciudad Mujer in Paraguay.  Joint with Claudia Piras, Ailin Tomio, and Diego Aguilar.

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