Publications
15. Lights, Camera, School: Information Provision through Television during COVID-19 Times (with Francisco Gallego [Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile] and Christopher Neilson [Yale]) (2025) Journal of Development Economics, Volume 176, 103504.
14. Balancing Speed and Coordination: Senior Leaders´ Perspectives on Civil Service Transformations during and after the Pandemic (with Margarita Gómez [Oxford University], Martin Williams [University of Michigan] et. al.) (2025). International Public Management Journal, Volume 28 (2), pp. 179-198.
13. COVID-19 and economic preferences: evidence from a panel of cab drivers (with Fernando Aragon [Simon Fraser University], Noelia Bernal [Universidad del Pacífico] and Mariano Bosch [Inter-American Development Bank]) (2024) Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 112, October, 102257.
12. Innovation and Competitiveness in the Copper Mining GVC: Developing Local Suppliers in Peru (with Penny Bamber [Duke Global Value Chains Center] and Karina Fernandez-Stark [Duke Global Value Chains Center]) (2024). Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 33 (4), August, pp. 940-964.
11. Study for Nothing? Gender and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country (with Diego Santa Maria [Harvard] and Gustavo Yamada [Universidad del Pacifico]) (2024). Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 72 (2), pp. 517-561.
10. Cash Transfer and Health Care Provision (with Natalia Guerrero [University of Minnesota] and Diego Winkelried [Universidad del Pacifico]) in Zimmermann, Klaus (ed.) (2023) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer.
9. Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru (with Italo Gutierrez [RAND]) (2021). Economics of Education Review, Volume 84, 102147.
8. Property Rights and Risk Aversion: Evidence from a Titling Program (with Fernando Aragon [Simon Fraser University] and Ingo Outes [Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University]). (2020) World Development, Volume 134, 105020.
Media: Semana Economica, Vox LACEA
7. Reverting to Informality: Unregistered Property Transactions and the Erosion of the Titling Reform in Peru (with Italo Gutierrez [RAND]) (2020). Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 69 (1), pp. 317-334.
Media: Land Lines, Vox LACEA
6. Conditional cash transfers, spillovers and informal health care: Evidence from Peru (with Natalia Guerrero [Minnesota] and Diego Winkelried [Universidad del Pacífico]). (2020) Health Economics, Volume 29 (2), pp. 111-122.
Media: El Comercio
5. Green Innovation in Natural Resource Industries: The case of Local Suppliers in the Peruvian Mining Industry (with Ana Sofia Aron [Universidad del Pacifico]). (2020) The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 7 (2), pp. 353-365.
4. Can Traffic Light Nutritional Labels induce healthier consumer choices? Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country (with Daniel Defago [Universidad del Pacifico], José Geng [Universidad del Pacifico] and Diego Santa Maria [Harvard]) (2020) International Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 44 (2), pp. 151-161.
Media: Semana Economica
3. Psychosocial Status and Cognitive Achievement in Peru (with Ingo Outes [Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University] and Alan Sanchez [GRADE]) (2018) Review of Development Economics, Volume 22 (4), pp. 1536-1560.
2. Innovation in an Unfavorable Context: Local Mining Suppliers in Peru (2018) Resources Policy, Volume 58, pp. 34-48.
Media: Semana Economica, Interview at El Comercio
1. The Perils of Climate Change: In Utero Exposure to Temperature Variability and Birth Outcomes in the Andean Region (with Victor Saldarriaga [PSE]) (2017) Economics and Human Biology, Volume 24, pp. 111-124.
Material: Video
Media: El Comercio, Vox LACEA
Policy: Meeting at Peruvian Ministry of Development
Working Papers
Can Attitudinal Changes Towards Reporting Curb Violence? An Experimental School Intervention in Peru [with Italo Gutierrez (Amazon), Hugo Ñopo (World Bank) and Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton)]
Media: RAND Blog, El Comercio, La Mula
Does Matching Contribution Incentivize Informal Workers to participate in Retirement Saving Plans? A Randomized Evaluation interacted with a Natural Experiment (with Noelia Bernal [Universidad del Pacifico] and Sebastián Galiani [Maryland and NBER]) NBER Working Paper 33925.
Material: AEA RCT Registry AEARCTR-0003395, IPA Description
Media: El Comercio, Foco Económico
Educational Perceptions and Expectations: Evidence from Urban Students in Peru (with Francisco Gallego [Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile], Christopher Neilson [Yale] and Eddie Escobar [Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile]). Revision requested.
Heterogeneous Effects of Property Rights on Housing Investment in Urban Peru (with Mans Soderbom [Gothenburg]).
Global Value Chains in the Peruvian Mining Sector (with Carlo Pietrobelli [IDB] and Jocelyn Olivari [IDB]) IDB Technical Note No. 1114.
Media: Semana Economica
Selected Work in Progress
The Dynamic Complementarity of Information: Human Capital Investment over the Life Cycle (with Christopher Neilson [Yale, JPAL and NBER] and Francisco Gallego [PUC Chile and JPAL]).
Material: Website, IPA Description, Brief, Video, Video
Media: Semana Economica, El Comercio
Conditional Cash Transfers and Informational Campaign: The effects on school dropout and students' beliefs in rural Peru (with Christopher Neilson [Yale, JPAL and NBER] and Francisco Gallego [PUC Chile and JPAL])
Savings in the gig economy (with Noelia Bernal [Universidad del Pacifico], Mariano Bosch [Inter-American Development Bank] and Brigitte Madrian [Brigham Young University and NBER])
Material: AEA RCT Registry AEARCTR-0004999, Description