Research

Publications

Differences in On-the-Job Learning Across Firms with Jaime Arellano-Bover (March, 2024). Accepted. Journal of Labor Economics.

Multidimensional Skills and Gender Differences in STEM Majors. The Economic Journal. 133 (April 2023), 1217–1247.

Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation with Ethan Kaplan, Sergio Urzua. AEJ: Economic Policy. Aug. 2023.

Dynamic Treatment Effects of Job Training with Jorge Rodriguez and Sergio Urzua. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Vol 37, Issue 2. 2022.

Working From Home in Developing Countries with Charles Gottlieb, Jan Grobovsek and Markus Poschke. European Economic Review. April 2021, vol. 133.

Does an Increasing Minimum Wage Reduce Formal Sector Employment? Evidence from Brazil with Sergio Urzua. Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Gritting it Out: The Importance of Non-Cognitive Skills in Academic Mismatch. Economics of Education Review. Volume 78, October 2020

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Career Choices for Young Workers in Latin America with Graciana Rucci, Sergio Urzua. Economic Inquiry, 2020, vol. 58, issue 3.

Work in Progress

Early Childhood Interventions and Parental Investment in the Skill Formation Process  (draft available upon request).

The Lifetime Value of Non-Cognitive Skills with Uta Bolt, Martin Karlsson and Rory McGee.

The Impact of Government Grants in College Savings Accounts: Evidence from the Canada Learning Bond with Laetitia Renee and William Arbour. 

Other Publications

Fast-Tracked to Success: Evidence on the Returns to Vocational Education in Switzerland. Annals of Economics and Statistics. June 2021, vol. 142, 5-44.

Lockdown Accounting with Charles Gottlieb, Jan Grobovsek and Markus Poschke The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022.

Who Can Work From Home in Developing Countries? (Codes). Published in Covid Economics, 2020.

Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Abilities with Miguel Sarzosa and Sergio Urzua. Chapter 2 in G. Jones, J. Johnes, T. Agasisti, & L. Lopez Torres (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics. 2018. Cheltenham, UK.