PUBLICATIONS
"Fiscal capacity and the flypaper effect" (with Rodrigo Saens and Carlos Villalobos), Public Choice (July 2026). link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-026-01438-x
"The Chilean turnout gender gap: evidence from administrative census data" (with Mauricio Morales), Acta Politica (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00245-8
"Gender Gaps in Electoral Turnout: Surveys Versus Administrative Censuses" (with Mauricio Morales), Political Studies Review , https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211019562 (August 2021).
“Indirect Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Chilean Municipalities” (with Alejandro Corvalán and Rodrigo Osorio), Journal of Development Economics 133 (2018) pp. 1-14, 2018.
“The Impact of Procedural Information on Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile”, with Alejandro Corvalán. Political Behavior, January 2017.
“The Chilean Peso Exchange Rate Carry Trade and Turbulence” (with José Gabriel Carreño), Cepal Review No. 120, 2016.
“Class-Biased Electoral Participation: The Youth Vote in Chile” (with Alejandro Corvalán), Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 55, Issue 2, pp. 47-68, Fall 2013.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Evaluando los determinantes de la Participación Electoral en Chile: sobre el uso de datos individuales y el sobre-reporte en encuestas”, with Alejandro Corvalán and Consuelo Hernández, in Condicionantes de la participación electoral en Chile, PNUD, 2015.
“Participación y Desigualdad Electoral en Chile “, with Alejandro Corvalán, Aprendizaje de la Ciudadanía: Contexto, experiencias y resultados, CEPPE, Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2015.
WORKING PAPERS
"Political budget cycles beyond annual data" (with Alejandro Corvalán and Gustavo Smith), 2026. Revise and resubmit in the Journal of Public Economics.
"Corrupt on schedule: election control and the making of the political budget cycle", 2026. Submitted.
"Paying Savers to Stay: Fee Competition, Switching Costs, and Manager Performance in Mandatory Pension Systems", 2026. Submitted
"Too Impatient to Hurry: Women, Men, and the Timing of Voter Registration" (with Alejandro Corvalán), 2026. (Originally titled: "Gendered discount rates in politics")
"The Multidimensional Budget Reallocation Index (MBRI) '' (tentative title) (with Alejandro Corvalán), 2026.
"Temporal and compositional manipulation of forbearance and tax effort over the political budget cycle: evidence from high frequency administrative data" (with Alejandro Micco), 2026.
"Free Money and Lazy Tax Collectors: unconditional Grants and Local Fiscal Effort" (tentative title) (with Rodrigo Saens and Carlos Villalobos), 2026.
"Cosseting and pulling the rug on incumbents: mass media and the political budget cycle", 2026.
"Who Pays the Watchdog? Collusive Supervision and Contingent Licensing in Multi-Type Screening", 2026.
“When and why are finance ministers dismissed: institutions and both politics and economics matter”, (with Matías Braun and Julio Guzmán), 2024.
“Mass media and the scope for, and magnitude of, unique equilibrium political budget cycles”, 2023.
“Gendered discount rates in politics” (with Alejandro Corvalán), 2022.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Endogenous Cleavages and Information on Reforms to the Minimum Wage”.
“Simulation and Estimation of Production Functions”, (with Samuele Centorrino, SUNY Stony Brook).
WORKING PAPERS (Banco Central de Chile)
“Precios de vivienda y salarios” (with Víctor Pérez), Working Paper, Central Bank of Chile, N° 781, March 2016. https://ideas.repec.org/p/chb/bcchwp/781.html
“Carry trade y turbulencias cambiarias con el peso chileno” (with José Gabriel Carreño), Working Paper, Central Bank of Chile, N° 733, July 2014.
“Evolution of Housing Prices in Chile” (with Eric Parrado and Marcelo Fuenzalida), Revista de Economía Chilena, Vol. 12, No. 1, April 2009.
“Distribution of Assets, Debt, and Income of Chilean Households” (with Eric Parrado and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle), Working Paper, Central Bank of Chile, N°388, December 2006.