Alex Solís

Publications:

1. University Loans and Grants, Effects on  Educational and Labor Market Outcomes (Forthcoming).

Journal of Labor Economics. Accepted for publication.

2. Bad Taste: Gender Discrimination in Consumer Lending (Forthcoming).

Journal of Political Economy. Microeconomics. Accepted for publication
(with A. Montoya, E. Parrado and R. Unduraga) 

Appendix - AEA RCT Registry

3.  Measuring the Effect of Student Loans on the College Persistence (2022). 

Education Finance and Policy  Vol. 17, issue 2, Spring. 

(with David Card). 

NBER Working paper

4. The Price of Inattention: Evidence from the Swedish Housing Market (2019). 

Journal of the European Economic Association Vol. 17, issue 6, November 

(with Luca Repetto). 

Working paper

5. Credit Access and College Enrollment (2017). 

Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 125, issue 2. April: 562-622.

Media: New York Times * Wordlbank blog * Chicago Booth Review 

6. Patterns of Pass-Through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices (2009). 

American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Vol 95 Issue 5: 1456-1461. 

(with Peter Berck, Ephraim Leibtag, and Sofia Villas-Boas)

Working Papers:

1. Distributional Effects of University Loans: Evidence from Chile (2025).
   (with Christopher Walters)

2. The Effects of Grade Retention on Human Capital Accumulation (2024).

3. Competition in the marriage market: Short and Medium-run effects of a quasi-random placement policy (2022). 

IFAU working paper 5517.

4. Does Higher Education Cause Political Participation?: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design (2013). 

Uppsala Working paper 2013:13

5. Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital  (2015)

(with K. Kaufmann & M. Messner). 

6. Returns to Elite Higher Education in the Labor and Marriage Market (2013)

(with K. Kaufmann & M. Messner). 

Reporte CAE y FSCU:

1.  Evaluación del Impacto de Créditos y Becas en el Capital Humano y el Ingreso del Trabajo (2024). 

  Reporte para el Ministerio del Trabajo y Previsión Social.