Research
PUBLICATIONS
Bidding against each other: local procurement of personal protective equipment in the context of decentralization and high socio-economic inequality, with Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi, Felipe Livert, Manuel Henríquez.
Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (2023) 57(6), e2022–0325.
Reinforcing the STEM pipeline in vocational-technical high schools: The effect of female teachers, with Paola Sevilla and Fernanda Ramirez-Espinoza. pdf Economics of Education Review (2023) 95 102428.
Dual TVET education in Chile: why do companies train students? with José de Amesti and Thomas Bolli. pdf
Journal of Vocational Education & Training (2023) Volume 75 - Issue 5.
The Gender Gap in College Major Choice in Chile, with Catalina Canals and Alejandra Mizala. pdf
Economics of Education Review (2020) 77 102011.
Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination and University Prestige, with Breno Braga. pdf
Economics of Education Review (2020) 77 101995.
College-Major Choice to College-Then-Major Choice, con Chao Fu. pdf
Review of Economic Studies (2015) 82 (4): 1247-1288.
Retención en los programas e instituciones de educación superior. Nueva evidencia para Chile, with Catalina Canals and Saúl Rojas.
Estudios de Política Educativa, N.2 2015.
Estudios Públicos, N.133, Verano, 2014.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Competition and the cannibalization of college quality (with, Chao Fu, Ana María Gazmuri, and Jean-Francois Houde). Book chapter for At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Maria Marta Ferreyra, Botero Alvarez, Ciro Avitabile, Francisco Haimovich Paz and Sergio Urzua). Directions in Development. World Bank. 2017
Desarrollo profesional de los docentes, with Catalina Canals, Saúl Rojas and Camila Serra, 2017, in Contextualización de la Enseñanza en Chile. Resultados de la Encuesta Internacional TALIS 2013, OECD. Ministerio de Educación.
Carreras Universitarias: Rentabilidad, Selectividad y Discriminación, 2010, in Meller (Ed.). Santiago: Uqbar Editores.
Mercados Laborales: ¿Soportes o Amenazas para la Cohesión Social Latinoamericana? (with Patricio Meller, Matias Cocina and Elizabeth Rivera), 2008, in Tironi (Ed.), Redes, Estado y Mercado. Soportes de la Cohesión Social Latinoamericana. Santiago: Uqbar Editores.
WORKING PAPERS
Rewarding Performance in Disaster Response: Evidence from Local-level Governments in Latin America, with Felipe Livert and Julie Weaver. R&R at World Development.
The Dynamic consequences of high school ranking on performance and choices, with Joanna Syrda and Chris Dawson.
Estimating the Returns of Attending a Selective University on Earnings using RD with Multiple Admission Cutoffs.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Gender Pay in the Teaching Profession: Evidence from two countries, with Roberto Gilmore, Cristián Sanchez and Miguel Sarsoza.
Big Players and Market Concentration in Vocational Education, with Bernardo Lara.
The non-Leaky Pipeline: Gender, financial aspects, and dropping out of STEM majors, with Andrea Canales and Viviana Salinas.
Brain Drain in College Major Choice, with Pablo Herrera.
A methodology for calculating the economic impact of school dropouts: the case of Chile, with Patricio Rodriguez, Alexis Villanueva, Eleni Kokkidou, and Javier Mondaca.
The Impact of General Versus Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) on Education and Labor Market Outcomes.