Alex Solís

Publications

1. University Loans and Grants: Effects on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes (2026).
   Journal of Labor Economics, 44(1), January.

2. Bad Taste: Gender Discrimination in Consumer Lending (2026).
   Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 4(1), 173–212.
   With Ana María Montoya, Eric Parrado and Raimundo Undurraga.
   Appendix · AEA RCT Registry

3. Measuring the Effect of Student Loans on College Persistence (2022).
   Education Finance and Policy, 17(2), 335–366. With David Card.
   NBER Working paper

4. The Price of Inattention: Evidence from the Swedish Housing Market (2019).
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(6). With Luca Repetto.
   Working paper

5. Credit Access and College Enrollment (2017).
   Journal of Political Economy, 125(2), 562–622.
   Media: New York Times · World Bank blog · Chicago Booth Review

6. Patterns of Pass-Through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices (2009).
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91(5), 1456–1461.
   With Peter Berck, Ephraim Leibtag and Sofia Villas-Boas.

Working Papers

1. Repeating a Grade Is Not Growing Up: Separating Schooling from Age in Grade Retention (2026).
   Online Appendix
   Earlier paper: The Effects of Grade Retention on Human Capital Accumulation (2024).

2. Identification of Complier Characteristics in the Fuzzy RD Design: Evidence from Student Loans (2026). With Christopher Walters.

3. Competition in the Marriage Market: Short- and Medium-run Effects of a Quasi-random Placement Policy (2022).

4. University, Credit and 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. With Katja Kaufmann and Matthias Messner.

6. Returns to Elite Higher Education in the Labor and Marriage Market (2013). With Katja Kaufmann and Matthias Messner.

Work in Progress

• Who Are the Compliers? Characterizing Marginal Borrowers with κ-Weighting.

• Distributional Returns to Student Loans: Beyond the Mean LATE.

• Do Beliefs Move When the Menu Widens? A Regression-Discontinuity Test on Credit-Eligible Chilean Students. With Rosario Macera.

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.