Working papers (selected)

Do More School Resources Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from an Extended School-Day Reform

Agüero, J, Favara, M., Porter, C., Sánchez, A. 

[Journal of Human Resources, revise and resubmit]

Long-term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Foundational Cognitive Skills

Pazos, N., Favara, M., Sánchez, A., Scott, D., Behrman, J. [submitted]

Don't Blame the Children: Rethinking the Post-lockdown Employment Recovery of Young Women in the Global South

Scott, D., Freund, R., Favara, M., Porter, C. & Sánchez, A. [submitted]

Published / forthcoming (selected)

Late-childhood Foundational Cognitive Skills Predict Educational Outcomes through Adolescence and into Young Adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru

Economics of Education Review, forthcoming. [Journal version]

Lopez, J., Behrman, J.R., Cueto, S., Favara, M., Sánchez, A. 

Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills    

Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming. [Journal version] [Replication files]

Mitchell, M., Favara, M., Porter, P., Sánchez, A.

Does Early Nutrition Predict Cognitive Skills During Later Childhood? Evidence from Two Developing Countries

World Development, 2024, 176, 106480. [Journal version] [Replication files]

Sánchez, A., Favara, M., Sheridan, M., Behrman, J. 

Young Lives, Interrupted: Short-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58(6).

Favara, M., Freund, R., Porter, C., Sánchez, A., Scott, D.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Anxiety and Depression Symptoms of Young People in the Global South: Evidence from a Four-Country Cohort Study

BMJ Open,  2021, 11(4).

Porter, C., Favara, M., Hittmeyer, A., Scott, D., Sánchez, A., Ellanki, R., Woldehanna, T., Duc, L.T., Craske, M., Stein, A.

Survey Attrition after 15 Years of Tracking Children in Four Developing Countries: the Young Lives study

Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24(4), 1196-1216. 

Sánchez, A., Escobal, J.

Impact of the JUNTOS Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Comparison between Younger and Older Initial Exposure

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68(3), 865-897.

Sánchez, A., Melendez, G., Behrman, J.

Accessing Higher Education in Developing Countries: Panel Data Analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam

World Development, 2018, 109, 261-278.

Sánchez, A., Singh, A.

The Structural Relationship between Early Nutrition, Cognitive Skills and Non-Cognitive Skills in Four Developing Countries

Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 27, 33-54.

Sánchez, A.