Research

Peer-reviewed publications and accepted articles:

• [11]  An Observational Implementation of the Outcome Test with an Application to Ethnic Prejudice in Pretrial Detentions  (first version: 2020; this version: July 2025).  With Damián Vergara. Conditionally Accepted, Journal of the European Economic Association.

• [10] Youth crime and educational contexts: a cohort analysis of Chile's rapid crime decline (2026)  With Alejandro Bayas and Esteban Puentes. Journal of Quantitative Criminology Volume 42, Issue 2, June. 

• [9] Inequality of Opportunity in Juvenile Crime and Education (2023), With Alejandro Bayas. International Journal of Educational Development Volume 103, November.

• [8]  The Effect of Pretrial Detention on Labor Market Outcomes  (2023). With Gonzalo Marivil and Jorge Rivera. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 39, 83–332. (View-only version, Working Paper Version)

• [7]  Una nueva estimación de la desigualdad de ingresos en Chile  (2022), With Osvaldo Larrañaga and Benjamín Echecopar. Estudios Públicos 167, 45-76. 

• [6]  Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime  (2022) With Chao Fu and Jorge Rivera. Quantitative Economics, Volume 13, Issue 2.

• [5]  Combining Discrimination Diagnostics to Identify Sources of Statistical Discrimination  (2021). With Patricio Domínguez, and Damián Vergara. Economics Letters. Volume 212, March (Working Paper Version).

• [4]  The Impact of Primary School Grade Retention on Juvenile Crime (2021).  With Juan Diaz, Tatiana Reyes, and Jorge Rivera. Economics of Education Review, Volume 84, October (Working Paper Version).

• [3]  Competition among schools and educational quality: Tension between various objectives of educational policy (2019) With Felipe Gajardo. International Journal of Educational Development  Volume 65, March, Pages 123-133 ( Working Paper Version, Versión previa en español )

Post published about this paper, as part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education

• [2]  The Impact of College Admissions Policies on the Academic Effort of High School Students (2018), Economics of Education Review, Volume 65, August, Pages 58-92 (Working Paper Version).

• [1]  School Closure and Educational Attainment: Evidence from a Market-based System (2018). With Daniel Hojman and Alejandra Mizala. Economics of Education Review, Volume 65, August, Pages 1-17 ( Working Paper Version)

 Another version of this paper:  Destructive Creation: School Turnover and Educational Attainment (2015).

Work in Progress:

• Gender Bias in College Admissions Based on Test Scores: Diagnostics and Policy Recommendations.  With Sofía Arredondo, Matías Grau, Tatiana Reyes, and Damián Vergara

• An outcome test for discrimination with a continuous variable: An application to primary school admissions in Chile  

• The Impact of Pretrial Detention on Health Outcomes. With Patricio Domínguez, Adrian Mundt, and Jorge Rivera.

Other Publications and Old Working Papers:

• Risk compensation among men in Zambia's national program of voluntary medical male circumcision (2025). With Paul Hewett, Shreemayi Samujjwala, and Petra E. Todd.

• Telling schools apart: the role of preferences, constraints, and the ability to differentiate between schools in parents' choices (2020) With Diego Amador and Juan-Andrés Castro

• The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Wages (2018). With Jorge Miranda and Esteban Puentes.

• The Impact of Prison Labor Programs on Recidivism: The Case of Chile (2017). With Francisca Gomez.

• A Dynamic Model of Elementary School Choice (2015).

• The Labor Impact of Minimum Wages: A Method for Estimating the Effect in Emerging Economies using Chilean Panel Data (2011), With Oscar Landerretche.

• Industrial Policy in Chile (2009) . With Manuel Agosin and Christian Larraín. For the IDB Latin American Network of Economic Research.