Research

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Publications

  • “School Schedules and Mothers’ Employment: Evidence from an Education Reform”, Review of Economics of the Household. 2022. (joint with Diana Kruger and Melanie Oyarzún). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-022-09599-6

  • “Harsh Parenting during Early Childhood and Child Development”, Economics & Human Biology. November 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2019.100831 (joint with Dante Contreras, Diana Kruger and María IsidoraPalma)

  • “Does adolescent motherhood affect education and labor market outcomes of mothers? A study on young adult women in Chile during 1990-2013”, International Journal of Public Health, forthcoming, doi: 10.1007/s00038-016-0926-5 (joint with Diana Kruger).

  • “Estimating the effects of teen motherhood in Chile: a family fixed effects approach”, Estudios de Economía, forthcoming June 2017 (joint with Diana Kruger and Juan Eberhard).

  • “The Household Choices of Schooling and Child Labor: A Structural Model with Applications to Brazil”, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 47, Issue1, December 2012, pp. 1-31. doi: 10.3368/jhr.47.1.1 (joint with Diana Kruger and Rodrigo Soares).

  • “Chilean Export Performance: The Role of Intensive and Extensive Margins”, Economía Chilena, Volume 4, No. 1, pp. 25-38, April 2011.

  • “Risky behavior among youth: Incapacitation effects of school on adolescent motherhood and crime in Chile”, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 95, Issues 1-2, February 2011, pp. 41-53 (joint with Diana Kruger)

  • “Allocation of children's time along gender lines: Work, school, and domestic work in Brazil”, in Child Labor and the Transition between School and Work (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 31), Randall K.Q. Akee, Eric V. Edmonds, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.161-192, 2010 (joint with Diana I. Kruger and Rodrigo R. Soares).

  • “On the Conservation of Distance in International Trade”, Journal of International Economics, Volume 75, Issue 2, 310–320, July 2008 (joint with Caroline Freund).

  • “Auge Inmobiliario en Chile: ¿Una Nueva Crisis Subprime?”, Trend Management, Management Made in Chile, May, 2008, pp.138-144 (joint with Rodrigo Aravena).

  • “How Household Economic Opportunities Affect Child Labor and Schooling in Nicaragua: Differential Effects by Gender”, The Georgetown Public Policy Review, Vol. 9, No.1, Fall 2003 (joint with Diana Kruger).

Chapters in Books

  • “Escolaridad y empleo juvenil en tiempos del Covid-19”, in “Negocios en América Latina después del Covid-19: Cambios y desafíos después de la pandemia”. Héctor Osorio and Daniel Soto, ed., Rubicón Editores - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, pp. 83-93, with Diana Kruger and Carolina Molinare, 2021. https://librero.cl/producto/negocios-en-america-latina-post-covid-19/

  • “Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America: The Case of Nicaragua”, in Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America, Kym Anderson and Alberto Valdes, ed., The World Bank with Diana Kruger and Diana Saavedra, 2008.

Working Paper Series

  • “Longer School Schedules and Early Reading Skills: Effects from a Full-Day School Reform in Chile”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 10282, October 2016 (joint with Diana Kruger and Veronica Vienne)

  • “The Effects of Longer School Days on Mothers’ Labor Force Participation”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 9212, July 2015 (joint with Diana Kruger and Melanie Oyarzún).

  • “Chilean Export Performance: The Role of Intensive and Extensive Margins”, Central Bank of Chile Working Papers No. 615, March 2011.

  • “The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile", IZA Discussion Paper No. 8072, November 2009 (joint with Diana Kruger)

  • “Adolescent motherhood and secondary schooling in Chile”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 4552, November 2009 (joint with Diana Kruger and Rodrigo Navia).

  • “Growth Effects of Regional Integration Agreements”, Central Bank of Chile Working Papers No. 278, 2004.

Submitted Papers

  • “School schedules and mothers’ labor outcomes: Evidence from an education reform”, with Diana Kruger and Melanie Oyarzún, 2016. Submitted: World Bank Economic Review.

  • “The effect of longer school schedules on early literacy”, with Diana Kruger and Veronica Vienne, 2015. Submitted: Economic of Education Review.

  • “Network structure and academic achievement”, with Eric Bettinger, Diana Kruger, and Alejandro Montecinos, 2016. Submitted: Economic of Education Review.

Working Papers

  • “Effects of full-day schooling on mothers’ employment quality: Evidence from a school reform in Chile”, with Diana Kruger and Carlos Zamora. 2016.

  • “In Utero Maternal Stress and its effects on Children’s Socioemotional Outcomes”, with Diana Kruger, and Rafael Sánchez, 2016.

Grants

  • Registro de Información Social (Social Information Registry), Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y Familia (Ministry of Social Development and Family). “Early Motherhood and Fatherhood and its effects on Educational Trajectories”. 2021-2023 (Principal Investigator).

  • Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). “Socio-Economic Determinants of Harsh Parenting during Early Childhood in Chile” (“Determinantes Socio-Económicos de Estilos Parentales en la Primera Infancia en Chile”). August 2020-August 2022 (Principal Investigator).

  • Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). Policy Analysis on Growth and Development (PAGE-II) research program. June 2018–June 2020. “Access to child care and mothers’ employment quality: lessons from Chile” (Principal Investigator)

  • FONDECYT (National Scientific and Technological Research Commission, Government of Chile.) March 2012 – March 2015. “The effect of longer school days on household time allocation decisions: Mothers labor supply, juvenile crime, and youth employment and Schooling in Chile” (Co- Investigator).

  • FONDECYT (National Scientific and Technological Research Commission, Government of Chile.) November 2008 – November 2010. “Evolution and Determinants of the Extensive Margin in Developing Countries: An Empirical Application” (Principal Investigator).

  • Dirección de Investigación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, May 2008 – March 2011. “Núcleo de Análisis Económico” (Director and Principal Investigator).

  • Dirección de Investigación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, May 2007 – March 2008. “Margen y Extensivo y Acuerdos Regionales: Evidencia para Chile” (Principal Investigator).

  • FONDECYT (National Scientific and Technological Research Commission, Government of Chile.) March 2007 – March 2009. “El Rol del Genero en el Trabajo y la Escolaridad en Jóvenes de Chile” (Co- Investigator).

  • FONDECYT (National Scientific and Technological Research Commission, Government of Chile.) March 2005 – March 2007. “Child labor and schooling: A structural model and its empirical application” (Co- Investigator).

  • FONDECYT (National Scientific and Technological Research Commission, Government of Chile.) May 2006 and 2005. International cooperation grant.

  • Direccion de Investigacion, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, May 2004 – March 2005. “Report on Economic Activity (Informe de Actualidad Económica)” (Principal Investigator).