Works in progress

Physicians Occupational Licensing and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off
with J.P. Atal, T. Larroucau, and C. Otero

College Major Choice, Payoffs, and Gender Gaps
with A. Bucarey, C. Campos, and D. Contreras 

Published and accepted work

Managers and Public Hospital Performance 

with C. Otero 

American Economic Review, 2025

The Impact of Standardized Disease-Specific Healthcare Coverage 

with  F. Menares

Journal of Public Economics, 2025

Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility 

with M.A. Bautista, F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem

Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2025

Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector  

with  M. Prem

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024

Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction

with F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem 

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024

The Impact of Extending Employment Protection to Agency Workers on Firms 

with A. Micco

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024

The Intergenerational Transmission of Higher Education 

with M.A. Bautista, F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem

Explorations in Economic History, 2023

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy 

with  M.A. Bautista, F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem 

 American Journal of Political Science, 2023 

Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors 

with F. González and M. Prem 

 Journal of Development Economics, 2021 

Labor Market Returns to Student Loans for University 

with A. Bucarey and D. Contreras

Journal of Labor Economics, 2020 

Other works

Local Governments and Regime Change Book chapter in "The Pinochet Shock" 

Edited by F. González and M. Prem

Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

The Effect of Elite Public High Schools: The Case of Instituto Nacional 

with A. Bucarey, M. Jorquera, and S. Urzúa

Estudios Públicos, 2014

Inequality and Academic Achievement in Chile 

with A. Redondo

CEPAL Review, 2013