research

PUBLICATIONS

"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 

“Election control, strategic information transmission, and corruption, in unique equilibrium political budget cycles”,  2023. Under revision (European Journal of Political Economy).

“Mass media and the scope for, and magnitude of, unique equilibrium political budget cycles”,  2023. Under Review (Europen Economic Review).

“The Media and the Political Budget Cycle”,  2023.

“Gendered discount rates in politics” (with Alejandro Corvalán),  2022. 

“Incentives for Performance and Price Competition in Compulsory Delegated Portfolio Management”, 2020.

“The Political Economy of Information Transmission: The Media and the Politician”, 2021.

“El canal del crédito y principales consecuencias macrofinancieras en Chile en las crisis asiática y sub-prime” (with Rubén Poblete), mimeo, 2018. 

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.  http://www.bcentral.cl/web/central-bank-of-chile/-/carry-trade-y-turbulencias-cambiarias-con-el-peso-chile-2

“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.  http://www.bcentral.cl/esp/estpub/estudios/dtbc/htm/388.htm