Marcello Pérez Alvarez

Publications

Children having Children: Early Motherhood and Offspring Human Capital in India (with Marta Favara), 2023, Ideas for India article, Journal of Population Economics, 36, 1573-1606

Home Bias in Humanitarian Aid: The Role of Regional Favoritism in the Allocation of International Disaster Relief (with Christian Bommer and Axel Dreher), 2022, voxeu.org article, Journal of Public Economics, 208, 104604

Nepotism, Human Capital and Economic Development (with Holger Strulik), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, Vol. 181, 211-240

Work in progress

Does Human Capital Influence the Gender Gap in Earnings? Evidence from Four Developing Countries (with Catherine Porter and Anvita Ramachandran), CSAE Working Paper WPS/2023-04, University of Oxford.

What if It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries (with Marta Favara and Richard Freund), IZA Discussion Paper 16417.

Moving to Opportunity Abroad: The Short-term Effects of International Educational Migration (with Matthias Sutter, Merve Demirel and Toman Barsbai)

Educational Migration Prospects and Human Capital Investments: Experimental Evidence from a Uganda-Germany College Access Program (with Matthias Sutter, Merve Demirel and Toman Barsbai)

Hospital Construction and Emergency Waiting Time: Evidence from Nicaragua (with Sarah Frohnweiler, Esther Heesemann, Manuel Santos Silva and Sebastian Vollmer)

Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes in Vietnam (with Caine Rolleston).

Returns to cognitive skills in 7 developing countries

Reports

Teacher Accountability and Pay-for-Performance Schemes in (Semi-) Urban Indonesia : What do Education Stakeholders Think? (with Jan Priebe and Dewi Susanti). World Bank Report.

Unequal Portions. Ending Malnutrition for Every Last Child (with Manuel Santos Silva). Technical note for Save the Children Report.