Working papers

Multidimensional Labor Conflict
with S. Correa, and R. Roldan

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

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

Published 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 Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy 

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

American Journal of Political Science (2023)

The Intergenerational Transmission of Higher Education 

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

Explorations in Economic History (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", ed. 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)