Research

Working Papers:

1. "Can Institutional Factors Affect Intergenerational Family Transfers? ," 2023 (Job Market Paper)

2. "The effect of monetary losses due to weather shocks on food security in Malawi: A subjective approach," 2020

3. "Analysis of the tax reform in Ecuador, 2001-2012" (with V. Aguiar and L. Castro). Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Macroeconomics of the Development Series No.143, 2013

4. "Ex-ante impacts of three commercial agreements in the Ecuadorian economy" (with V. Aguiar and H. Jacome). Linea Sur Magazine, 2012

Work in Progress:

1. "Pathways  into single motherhood and their implications for children's wellbeing in Nicaragua'' (with M. Arends-Kuenning and Catalina Herrera Almanza)

2. "To waste or not to waste? Exploring the complexity of student dietary behaviors in school cafeterias'' (with M. Pflugh Prescott, B. Ellison, R. Ofori, S. Palmer, and I. Ciubotariu)

3. "Students' peer effects on food selection and consumption" (with M. Pflugh Prescott, B. Ellison, R. Ofori, S. Palmer, and I. Ciubotariu)

4. "An agent-based model of the school cafeteria and meal patterns: Feedback of school nutrition stakeholders" (with M. Pflugh Prescott, B. Ellison, R. Ofori, S. Palmer, and I. Ciubotariu)

Journal Publications:

1. "Poverty, vulnerability, and the middle class in Latin America" (with M. Stampini, M. Robles, P. Ibarraran, and N. Medellin). Latin American Economic Review, 2016

Book Chapters:

1. "Intergenerational persistence in education" (with M. Robles). In S. Duryea and M. Robles (Ed). Social Pulse in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017: Family Legacy, Breaking the Mold or Repeating Patterns? (pp. 12-41). Inter-American Development Bank

2. "Indicators of context and indicators of outcome" (with S. Duryea, S. Insfrán, M. Robles,  V. Saldarriaga, and D. Zuluaga). In S. Duryea and M. Robles (Ed). Social Pulse in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017: Family Legacy, Breaking the Mold or Repeating Patterns? (pp. 84-140). Inter-American Development Bank

3. "Indicators of context and indicators of outcome" (with  S. Duryea, M. Robles, M. Rubio, and D. Saric). In S. Duryea and M. Robles (Ed). Latin American and Caribbean Social Pulse 2016: realities and perspectives (pp. 25-63). Inter-American Development Bank

4. "The case of Ecuador" (with L. Czarnecki and E. Balleza). Poverty and inequality in Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico after the 2008 global crisis. KoŹmmiński Studies in Management and Economics, 2014, Volume 2