Research

Publications and Forthcoming:

• Do school shootings erode property values? (Joint with Ruchi Singh) Online Appendix - Accepted at Regional Science and Urban Economics

  • • Press Coverage: UI News; OZY

• Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention (Joint with Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason Kerwin, Jeff Smith, and Rebecca Thornton) - Forthcoming at Journal of Econometrics.

• 2018 The Economics Behind the Math Gender Gap: Colombian Evidence on the Role of Sample Selection. Journal of Development Economics, 135: pp. 368-391. [paper]

  • • Featured in Marginal Revolution

• 2015 Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America, Is the glass half empty or half full?, Joint with Marina Bassi and Matías Busso. Economia Journal. Fall 2015. pp. 113-156.

  • • Press Coverage: Huffington Post

Working Papers:

• Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates (Joint with Matías Busso and Sebastián Montaño)

• Import Competition, Foreign Inputs, and Labor Adjustment in a Developing Country: Evidence from Colombian Liberalization (Joint with Leonardo Bonilla)

• Unbundling Returns to Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Postsecondary Education in Colombia (Joint with Matías Busso)

Chapters in Books:

• 2014 "Women and Social Mobility" (in spanish) , with Ximena Peña, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Jorge Castañeda, and Camila Uribe, in Armando Montenegro and Marcela Meléndez (eds.), Equidad y Movilidad Social, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.

Op-eds:

• 2016 "País(es) Divergente(s): Radiografía del Plebiscito" (In Spanish). Joint work with Juan Herreno.

  • • Press Coverage: CNN, El Espectador, Pulzo.

Work in Progress:

• Long-Term Direct and Intra-household Spillover Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Experimental Evidence from Colombia (Joint with Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Leonardo Bonilla, and Matías Busso)

• Opportunity Costs and the Local Effects of Migration (Joint with Mateo Arbeláez and Nicolás Urdaneta)

• Seasonality, Calendar Adjustment, and School Enrolment: Evidence from rural Colombia (Joint with Abu Shonchoy, Sebastián Montaño, and Anderson Tami)