Publications
- The Effectiveness, Equity and Explainability of Health Service Resource Allocation – with applications in Kidney Transplantation and Family Planning (with Joris van de Klundert, Harwin de Vries and Francisco Pérez-Galarce). Frontiers in Health Servicies 2025, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2025.1545864
- The Psychosocial Burden of Families with Childhood Blood Cancer (with Florencia Borrescio-Higa). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010599.
- Changes in parental smoking behavior and children’s health status in Chile (with Guillermo Paraje). Preventive Medicine, Volume 153, 2021, 106792, ISSN 0091-7435; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106792.
- Medical Cost of Cancer Care for Privately Insured Children in Chile (with Florencia Borrescio-Higa). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(13), 6746; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136746
- Publicly insured caesarean sections in private hospitals: a repeated cross-sectional analysis in Chile (with Florencia Borrescio-Higa). BMJ Open 2019;9:e024241; http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024241
- Health care expenditures and GDP in Latin American and OECD countries: a comparison using a panel cointegration approach (with Alejandro F. Rodriguez). Int J Health Econ Manag. (2019) 19: 115; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-018-9250-3
- Legalization and human capital accumulation (with Fabio Mendez and Facundo Sepúlveda). Journal of Population Economics, Volume 29, Number 3, pages 721-756, July 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-016-0585-0
- Spillovers of Health Education at School on Parents' Physical Activity (with Lucila Berniell and Dolores de la Mata). Health Economics, Volume 22, Issue 9, pages 1004–1020, September 2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.2958
Working Papers (drafts upon request)
- Asymmetric information with multiple risks: the case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market (with Dolores de la Mata, Matilde P. Machado, and Pau Olivella)
- More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile (with Grant Miller and Marcos Vera-Hernández)
- Impact of private management of public hospitals on health outcomes: Evidence from Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Ramiro de Elejalde and Eugenio Giolito)
- COVID-19’s Impact on Research Productivity and Scientific Networks: The Case of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil (with Ramiro de Elejalde and Eugenio Giolito)
- Life cycle patterns in medical expenditure: empirical evidence from Chile. (with Dolores de la Mata)
- The school reentry decision of poor girls. Structural estimation and policy analysis using PROGRESA database.
- Did PROGRESA send drop-outs back to school?