Research

Working Papers

Targeted Recruitment Over the Business Cycle

(Job Market Paper | Under Review)

Cyclical Job Search Effort of Non-employed Individuals in the U.S.: An Empirical Investigation

(Under Review) 

The Distributional Dynamics of Wages Over the Business Cycle 

(Awarded Best Paper - 2023 PhD Conference of the Royal Economic Society)

Minimum Wages and Contract Duration in Germany 

Co-author(s): David Margolis

Selected Work in Progress

For a Few Dollars Less? Minimum Wages and Re-employment Wages in the U.S. 

The Power of Words: Gendered Wording in Job Ads and Female Hiring in the U.S.

Media coverage: AP News 

Golden Boys? Male Wages and Female Marriage Prospects: Evidence from Mineral Price Shocks in Rural Peru

Co-author(s): Jesper Bagger, Dan Anderberg, Juan-José Díaz  

Great Expectations? A Bayesian Approach to Wage Posting Models of Job Search

Co-author(s): David Margolis

Publications

A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru

Co-author(s): Juan-José Díaz 

    Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 89: 102739. 

(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse

Co-author(s): Juan-José Díaz 

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70(2): pp. 865-899

Encouraging Use of Prenatal Care through Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from JUNTOS in Peru

Co-author(s): Juan-José Díaz 

Health Economics, 2019, 28, pp. 1099-1113

The Perils of Climate Change: In Utero Exposure to Temperature Variability and Birth Outcomes in the Andean Region

Co-author(s): Oswaldo Molina 

Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 24, pp. 111-124 

Birth Weight and Early Childhood Physical Health: Evidence from a Sample of Latin American Twins

Economía Journal, 2015, 15(2), pp. 161-197

Do Benefit Recipients Change their Labor Supply After Receiving the Cash Transfer? Evidence from the Peruvian JUNTOS Program 

Co-author(s): Fernando Fernández

IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3(2), pp. 1-30 

Current Teaching

Graduate Level

Microeconomics | University of Edinburgh

(Pre-sessional - M.S. in Economics)

Undergraduate Level

Development, Inequality and Trade | University of Edinburgh

(2nd Year - B.S. in Economics)