Working Papers:
The Public-Private Coordination Method as a Basis for Economic Development in Democratic Societies (2026)
State Capacity and Industrial Policy in a Middle-Income Country: Lessons from Chile (2022-2026) (2026, Revision Requested , Oxford Review of Economic Policy).
Discrimination Against Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Pretrial Detentions (2026) With Patricio Domínguez and Damián Vergara (Submitted).
Exploitation: theory and empirics (2026, first version 2025) With Daniele Girardi, Roberto Veneziani, and Naoki Yoshihara.
Juvenile Pretrial Detention and Adult Recidivism (2026). With Tomás Cortés and Jorge Rivera .
Featured: CONTRAFACTUAL (in Spanish). An Opinion column discussing the results of this paper (in Spanish).
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:
Locking In Commitments: Lessons from Public-Private Partnerships for Industrial Policy. With Mariana Mazzucato and Rodrigo Echecopar.
Gender Bias in College Admissions Based on Test Scores: Diagnostics and Policy Recommendations. With Sofía Arredondo, Matías Grau, Tatiana Reyes, and Damián Vergara
Continuous Outcome Tests for Discrimination
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.
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.