Research

Publications 

"Test Endurance and Remedial Education Interventions: Good News for Girls", with Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo. WP-AD 2019-01; Working Papers 20.10, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. forthcoming in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.

"Repayment Flexibility and Risk Taking: Experimental Evidence from Credit Contracts", with Selim Gulesci and Andreas Madestam. The Review of Economic Studies (2023), rdad107, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdad107.

• • Vox CEPR Policy Portal: https://voxeu.org/article/repayment-flexibility-and-risk-taking

  • The World Bank Blogs, Some of our favorite development papers of 2018: https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/some-our-favorite-development-papers-2018

  • VoxDev: https://voxdev.org/topic/firms-trade/flexible-credit-repayment-and-risk-taking-bangladesh

“The Psychological Effect of a Math Signal", with Pedro Albarran and Marcello Sartarelli, Economics of Education Review, 86: 102202, 2022.

• • Nada es Gratis: https://nadaesgratis.es/admin/el-efecto-psicologico-de-una-senal-en-matematicas

"With a Little Help From My Friends: Medium Term Effects of a Remedial Education Program Targeting Roma Minority", with Lara Lebedinski, Economics of Education Review, 86: 102196, 2022.

"Segregation, Fertility and Son Preference: the Case of the Roma in Serbia", with Bastien Chabe'-Ferret and Lara Lebedinski, Journal of Demographic Economics, 87(2): 223-260, 2021.

"Family Planning and Child Health Care: Effect of the Peruvian Programa de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar, 1996-2000", with Nina Pallares, Population and Development Review, 46 (1): 33-64, 2020.

• • IUSSP's online magazine: https://www.niussp.org/article/family-planning-and-child-health-care-the-peruvian-case/

"The Curse of Low Expectations: Remedial Education and Perceived Returns to Education of Roma People", with Lara Lebedinski, Economics of Transition, 25 (4): 681-721, 2017.

"Equal Access to Education: An Evaluation of the Roma Teaching Assistant Program in Serbia", with Lara Lebedinski, World Development, 76: 62-81, 2015.

"Migration, Health Knowledge and Teenage Fertility: Evidence from Mexico", SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 6(2): 179-206, 2015.

Working papers and work in progress

• "Better Early than Late? Primary versus Secondary School Remedial Interventions", with Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo.

  • La Caixa Foundation: https://observatoriosociallacaixa.org/

• "Is Assessment Gendered?", with Pedro Albarran and Marcello Sartarelli.

• “Supply and Demand of Public and Private Education” (with María Gonzalez Cabrera)

• “Environmental Disasters and Tightness of Female Genital Cutting in Africa” (with John Egyir and Jorge García-Hombrados)