"Money and gender: proxy respondents and the mismeasurement of income in surveys" with Daniela Goyheix and Maria Lombardi. Journal of Development Economics, July 2026.
Blog posts in Nada es Gratis and Visiones CAF (both in Spanish).
Working paper (June, 2026).
"Family rules: Nepotism in the Mexican judiciary" with Pablo Brassiolo, Gustavo Fajardo, and Julián Martínez Correa.
Journal of Development Economics, June, 2026.
Working paper (April, 2026).
"Rule-based civil service: Evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico" with Rafael de Hoyos and Juan Bedoya.
Economics of Education Review, April, 2026.
Working paper (December, 2025).
Post in Let's Talk Development Blog in English and Spanish.
"Academic benefits to full-time schools: Evidence from Fortaleza" with Agustina Hatrick and Cecilia Llambi.
Education Finance and Policy, November, 2025.
Working paper (June, 2025).
Evaluation report and executive summary (both in Portuguese).
Blog post in Visiones CAF (in Spanish).
Media coverage in OESTADO (in Portuguese).
Webinar on full-time schools with education officials from Fortaleza (Brazil), Chile, and Peru (in Portuguese and Spanish).
"Learning about opportunity: Spillovers of elite school admissions in Peru" with Jérémie Gignoux and Agustina Hatrick.
The Economic Journal, October, 2025.
Working paper (Septembre, 2024).
Blog posts in VoxDev and (in Spanish:) Nada es Gratis and Visiones CAF.
"The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity" with Maria Lombardi.
Journal of Human Resources, June, 2024.
Working paper (April, 2024).
Post in Blog Nada es Gratis (in Spanish).
"Bureaucratic turnover across levels of government" with Pablo Brassiolo and Gustavo Fajardo. Open access.
Economía, the Journal of LACEA, April, 2024.
"Skills and selection into teaching: Evidence from Latin America" with Maria Lombardi. Open access.
Economía, the Journal of LACEA, November, 2023.
Blog post in Visiones CAF (in Spanish).
"Going subnational: wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay" with Josefina Baez, Pablo Brassiolo and Gustavo Fajardo.
World Development, December, 2022.
Working paper
"The effect of the demand for elite schools on stratification".
Economics Letters, June 2022.
Working paper Old and (much) larger working paper.
"Self-Selection into corruption: Evidence from the lab" with Pablo Brassiolo, Gustavo Fajardo and Juan Vargas.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December, 2021.
Working paper
Blog post in Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)
"What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico" with Rafael de Hoyos and María José Vargas.
World Development, October, 2021.
"My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador" with Pablo Brassiolo and Gustavo Fajardo.
Journal of Public Economics, November 2020.
Working paper
"Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage" with Inés Berniell.
Labour Economics, October 2020.
Working Paper
Post in CEDLAS Blog (in Spanish)
"Rules vs Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico".
Journal of Labor Economics, April 2019.
Working Paper
Post in Nexos Education Blog (in Spanish)
Media coverage (in Spanish): Educación Futura, Reforma (non-gated version), El Financiero
"Benefits to elite schools and the expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City" with Jérémie Gignoux.
European Economic Review, June 2017.
Working Paper
"The Gender Wage Gap in a Highly Regulated Market" with Paola Bordón, Cristián Sánchez, and Miguel Sarzosa. CAF Working Paper, July, 2026.
Books
RED 2023. Desafíos globales, soluciones regionales: América Latina y el Caribe frente a la crisis climática y de biodiversidad. Coedited with Pablo Brassiolo. CAF–development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023.
Available in English and Portuguese.
Profesionistas en vilo. ¿Es la universidad una buena inversión? Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A.C., Mexico City, 2011
Selected media coverage (in Spanish): W Radio, CNN Expansion, El Economista, Reforma (non-gated) .COVID policy note
Book chapters
Closing the Skills Gap and Improving the Quality of Jobs with Pablo Brassiolo. In Unlocking growth in a changing world. Innovation, Integration, and Formalization for Latin America and the Caribbean. CAF–development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2026.
Competencias para la digitalización: funcionarios públicos de América Latina y el Caribe. In Digitalización en IA: avances y desafíos sectoriales en América Latina y el Caribe. CAF–development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025.
¿Quiénes son los funcionarios de los gobiernos subnacionales? In Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Soluciones cercanas: el papel de los gobiernos locales y regionales en América Latina y el Caribe. CAF–development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025.
Los ingresos de los gobiernos subnacionales: el rol de los impuestos y las transferencias. In Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Soluciones cercanas: el papel de los gobiernos locales y regionales en América Latina y el Caribe. CAF–development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025.
La respuesta al cambio climático y la agenda de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe with Pablo Brassiolo and Ernesto Schargrodsky. In Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Desafíos globales, soluciones regionales: América Latina y el Caribe frente a la crisis climática y de biodiversidad. CAF–development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023.
Ecosistemas y biodiversidad ante el cambio climático with Federico Juncosa. In Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Desafíos globales, soluciones regionales: América Latina y el Caribe frente a la crisis climática y de biodiversidad. CAF–development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023.
Los servicios de salud y cuidados frente al envejecimiento. Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Los sistemas de pensiones y salud en América Latina. Los desafíos del envejecimiento, el cambio tecnológico y la informalidad. (with Dolores de la Mata) CAF-development bank of Latin America, 2020.
Choosing the best with Pablo Brassiolo. Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Integrity in public policy. Keys to prevent corruption. CAF-development bank of Latin America, 2019.
Also available in Spanish.
Mobility for accessibility with Fernando Alvarez-Parra. In Reporte de Economía y Desarrollo: Urban growth and access to opportunities: a challenge for Latin America. CAF-development bank of Latin America, 2017.
Also available in Spanish.
Perfil de la Pobreza Rural en Nicaragua. In Faiguenbaum, S., Ortega, C. y Soto, F. (Ed) Pobreza Rural y Políticas Públicas en ALC, Tomo II, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 2013.
Handbook
Assessing integration methodology (AIM): A handbook for measuring and assessing the integration of family planning and other reproductive health services (with Estela Rivero-Fuentes, Saumya Ramarao, Charlotte Warren, Saiqa Mullick, Harriet Birungi, Ian Askew and Susana Medina), FRONTIERS Manual. Washington, DC: Population Council, 2008.
COVID policy note
Políticas para reducir las brechas educativas en la pospandemia (with L. Berniell, B. Diaz, A. Hatrick, C. Llambi, L. Maris, and D. Singer). Documentos de políticas para el desarrollo. CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, 2021.
