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 Selected Op Ed


Can at-scale parenting interventions effectively reduce violece against children? VoxDev, Feb, 2024. [English]

Aumento inédito del gasto en seguridad: De cuánto estamos hablando? Sept 2023. [Español

La perspectiva económica del crimen y la seguridad en Chile. Diario Financiero y Contrafactual. May 2023. [Español]

How potential offenders and victims interact: Evidence from Chile. VoxDev, April 2023. [English]

Los costos de la cárcel. CIPER, April 2023. [Español]

Pecepción del aporte de migrantes. La Segunda, Jan 2023. [Español]

La importancia de los contrafactuales. El Mercurio, Oct 2022.

Cómo es la interacción entre delincuentes y las víctimas? El caso del robo a choferes de bus, Oct 2022. [Español]

Using remote surveying methods to collect data during challenging times, May 2022. (English)

La revolución de la credibilidad en economía, Dec, 2021.

Inmigración, Delincuencia y las Percepciones Erróneas sobre el Delito, May 2021. (Español)

Ideas to Safely Reduce Prison Population during the Pandemic, May 2020.  (English) (Español)

Pandemic and prisons: What are the Challenges for Latin American Countries, April 2020. (English) (Español)

Can Algorythms Improve the Criminal Justice System? Nov 2019.  (English) (Español)

How Better Ambient and Street Lighting Can Reduce Crime, May 2019.  (English) (Español)

Tougher Sentences. They Key to Fighting Crime in Latin America? Nov 2018.  (English) (Español)


Policy Reports

3.  El gasto en seguridad pública (w. M. Duce y R.Fugellie)  (Español)

2.  Seguridad efectiva, sin efectismos. Apuntes para la agenda legislativa (w. M. Duce y L.García)  (Español)


Other Research

7. Desafíos y propuestas para la regularización inserción laboral de migrantes en Chile (Spanish)


6. "Inmigración y crimen: Cómo enfrentar el escenario migratorio que viene? (Spanish)


5. "School segregation in Chile: The impact of a targeted voucher for disadvantaged students on the socioeconomic composition of schools" 

- Available as Working paper at Espacio Publico (2014), Think Tank (In Spanish).

- Op-ed on December 4th, 2014. published at Ciper Chile (In Spanish).


4. "Vulnerability to Poverty in Chile: An empirical analysis using cross-sectional data" 

     Berkeley Public Policy Journal #14, issue 2, pp 6-14 (2014), Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. 


3. "Politics of Pension Reform in Chile: An applied example of Pierson ́s theory of welfare state" 

Berkeley Public Policy Journal #11, pp 4-10 (2013), Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. 


2. "Social Protection: Vulnerability, Poverty and Inequality" [available upon request]

Reference Paper for the postgraduate course in Social Protection to officials of the Organization of the American States – OAS Reviewed and approved by anonymous officials at OAS (2012), Washington, DC. (In Spanish)


Journal of the Social Research Center, N° 15 (2011), Santiago, Chile. (In spanish)