Alex Solís

I received a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012.

I am an affiliated researcher at the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile.

email: alexsolisv@gmail.com

Google scholar profile: link 📍 CV

Publications:

University Loans vs. Grants, How They Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes (2023).

Accepted for publication in the Journal of Labor Economics.

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

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

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

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:

Bad taste: gender discrimination in the consumer credit market (2021).

IDB working paper series 1053 [R&R] (with A. Montoya, E. Parrado and R. Undurraga)

Pre-analysis plan: pdf / AEA RCT Registry

Media: Financial Times * El País * El Mercurio * VoxDev * UN woman

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

IFAU working paper 5517.

The Effects of Grade Retention on Human Capital Accumulation (2017).

Uppsala Working paper 2017:15

University, Credit and Political Participation. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (2024).

SSRN Working paper

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

(with K. Kaufmann & M. Messner).

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

(with K. Kaufmann & M. Messner).

Work In Progress:

Education Quality and the marriage and labor market. Evidence from University Admissions in Sweden

(Work in progress) (with Luca Repetto and Björn Öckert)

The benefits of Political Connections. Evidence from Sweden

(Work in progress)

Income expectations and overconfidence in Human Capital Decisions

(with Rosario Macera)

Navigating the Academic Ladder: The Role of Grade Retention in Educational Success.

(Working paper soon)

The Impact of Grade Retention on the Development of Resilience and Conscientiousness in Students.

(Working paper soon)

Shifting the Balance: Graduation Rates in Male-Dominated Fields of Studies.

(Work in progress)