Curriculum vitae

My CV can be downloaded here.

Research Interests

Primary fields: Economics of Education, Policy and Program Evaluation

Secondary: Labor Economics, Development Economics

Work in Progress

• Attracting Talent to Teaching: Evidence from a Chilean Scholarship Program, with Veronica Santelices and Edgar Valencia.

• Macroeconomic Conditions and the Teaching Profession: Evidence from Chile, with Diana Alessandrini.

• Dynamic Effects of a Teacher Bonus Tournament, with Diana Alessandrini.

• School Choice and Higher Education Attainment, with Diana Alessandrini. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15330

• Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment, with Hao Lu, Claudia De Fuentes, Soheil Ahmadi. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15725

Publications

• Son Targeting Fertility Behaviour in Albania, with Marie-Claire Robitaille. Accepted at Journal of Development Studies.

  • IZA Discussion Paper No. 15122 

• (Un)Intended Effects of a Teacher Bonus Tournament.  Accepted at Economic Development & Cultural Change.

  • Link to latest manuscript. 

• Minimum Wage effects on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Canadian Data, with Diana Alessandrini.  Journal of Human Capital, 2024, Vol.18, No.2.  https://doi.org/10.1086/728084 

  • Appeared in media: 

    • CRDCN Research Policy Snapshots

    • Brookings

    • IZA Newsroom

• Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education, with Michael Hoy, Thanasis Stengos and Louis N.  Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, Vol. 63 (3), p. 593–616 (Leading Article). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12538

• The Canadian University Selectivity Premium on Wages. Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, Vol. 10, p. 313–349  (Leading Article). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/rea.v10i4.1473 

• Sensitivity of University Rankings: Implications of a Stochastic Dominance Efficiency Analysis, with Mehmet Pinar and Thanasis Stengos. Education Economics, 2018, Vol. 27 (1), p. 75–92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2018.1512560.

• Updating Higher Education Expectations and Choices with Learning. Education Economics, 2017, Vol. 25, No. 6, p. 640–658, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2017.1331204.

• Higher Education Value-Added using Multiple Outcomes,  with Ernesto San Martin and Sebastien Van Bellegem.  Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016, Vol. 53, No. 3, p. 368-400, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jedm.12114.

• Grades, Aspirations and Post-secondary Education Outcomes, with Louis N. Christofides, Michael Hoy and Thanasis Stengos. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45(1), p. 48–82, DOI: https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v45i1.184203.

Courses taught

• Social Policy: Economic Analysis

• Labor Economics

• Economic Development & Policy

• Human Resource Economics

• Intermediate Microeconomics

• Principles of Microeconomics