Journal Articles (peer reviewed)

• Motivating Self-Employed Women to Contribute to Social Security: A Laboratory Experiment in Bolivia

2026. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (with Lorena Heller and Rodrigo López)​

• Understanding the Mechanisms and Outcomes of Skill Formation: The Effects of Preschool on the Quality of Early Careers in Peru

2026. International Journal of Educational Development (with Sergio Mansilla)​

• Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty: Correlations, Mismatches, and a Combined Approach 

2024. Journal of Development Studies (with Martin Evans and Matthew Robson)​

• Multidimensional Poverty and Conflict Events in Nigeria Over Time

2023. International Political Science Review (with Christian Oldiges)​

• On track ot not? Projecting the global Multidimensional Poverty Index 

2023. Journal of Development Economics (with Sabina Alkire, Natalie Quinn and Nicolai Suppa)​

• Impact of Refugees on Food Prices: Evidence from the Rohingya Displacement

2022. World Development (with Ashraf Alam, Indranil Dutta and Emranul Haque)​

• Revising the global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical Insights and Robustness

2022. Review of Income & Wealth (with Sabina Alkire, Usha Kanagaratnam and Nicolai Suppa)​

• On the Advantages and Feasibility of Weather Index-Based Crop Insurance Schemes in Bolivia

2022. Emerging Markets Finance & Trade (with Pamela Córdova)

• Global Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19: A decade of Progress at Risk?

2021. Social Science & Medicine (with Sabina Alkire, Natalie N. Quinn and Nicolai Suppa)​​

• Endogenous Weights and Nultidimensional Poverty: A Cautionary Tale

2021. Journal of Development Economics (with Indranil Dutta and Gaston Yalonetzky)​

• International Labour Migration and the Many Forms of Poverty

2021. Migration Studies (with Christian Oldiges)

• The Impact of University Reputation on Employment Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Bolivia

2020. The Economic and Labour Relations Review (with Pamela Córdova and Manuel Urquidi)​

• COVID-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges 

2020. Journal of Human Development & Capabilities  (with Paul Anand, Qin Gao, Bob Ferrer, Elaine Unterhalter)

• Bolivia: Una Nueva Mirada al Rol de los Recursos Naturales en el Crecimiento Económico 

2020. Latin American Research Review (with Manuel Olave, Pamela Córdova and Brisa Rejas)

• Education, Skills and a Good job: a Multidimensional Econometric Analysis

2020. World Development (with Jaya Krishnakumar)

• Public Policies and Equality of Opportunity for Wellbeing in Multiple Dimensions

2020. Social Indicators Research (with Jaya Krishnakumar)

• On the Relationship Between Labor Policies and Market Outcomes in Bolivia: A Search and Matching Approach

2019. Estudios de Economía (with Pamela Córdova and Manuel Urquidi)

• Demystifying the Use of Simultaneous Equation Models for the Operationalisation of the Capability Approach. 

2018. In New Frontiers of the Capability Approach, Cambridge University Press (with Jaya Krishnakumar)

• Public Policies for Wellbeing with Justice: A Theoretical Discussion Based on Capabilities and Opportunities

2017. In Ética, Agencia & Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Católica del Perú (with Jaya Krishnakumar) 

Policy Documents​​

• Advancing Inclusive Sustainable Development by Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing Better.

         2025. G20/T20 Secretariat (South Africa)

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025: Overlapping Hardships - Poverty and Climate Hazards.

         2025. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative​

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid Conflict.

         2024. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative​

• Simulations and Multidimensional Poverty: Reflections on a COVID-19 evaluation study

         2022. Dimensiones Magazine​

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022: Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty

         2022. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative​

• Compendium of Experiences and Lessons Learned from the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America

         2022. OAS - Organization of American States, Secretariat of Access to Rights and Equity

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021: Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste and gender

         2021. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative​

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020: Charting pathways out of multidimensional poverty

2020. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities

2019. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2018: The most detailed picture to date of the world’s poorest people

2018. UNDP - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative

• Bolivia: Frente a la Comercialización y la Competencia en las Microfinanzas, Qué rol deben tomar las políticas públicas? 

2011. In Microfinanzas y Políticas Públicas, ILO. (with Julio Alem and Carlos Foronda)

• Midiendo los Efectos de las Remesas Internacionales en Bolivia 

2011. In En Busca de Oportunidades: Clases Medias y Movilidad Social, UNDP-Bolivia. (with Carlos Foronda)

• Calidad de Vida y Percepción Sobre Desigualdad de Oportunidades: Evidencia Empírica para Bolivia 

2011. In En Busca de Oportunidades: Clases Medias y Movilidad Social, UNDP-Bolivia. (with Carlos Foronda)

Work in Progress (selected)

• Leaving no-one behind: the COVID-19 pandemic and multidimensional poverty in South Asia

(with Sabina Alkire, Jakob Dirksen, Christian Oldiges)

• Sensitivity of multidimensional poverty measures: The case of the global MPI

(with Sabina Alkire, Usha Kanagaratnam, Nicolai Suppa)​

• Analysis of missing values in a dual cutoff counting approach to poverty measurement

(with Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio)​