Published Papers

• Losing my Religion: The Effects of Religious Scandals on Religious Participation and Charitable Giving (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) Journal of Public Economics, September 2015, Vol. 129, pages 106-119.
  Supplemental Material: Animated map of US
  Media: Pacific Standard; Harvard Business Review; Clarin – Spanish​
• Access to Preprimary Education and Progression in Primary School: Evidence from Rural Guatemala (with Paulo Bastos and Julian Cristia) Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 2017, Vol. 65, no. 3, pages 521-547.​​
• Deconstructing the hedonic treadmill: Is happiness autoregressive? (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) The Journal of Socio-Economics, May 2011, 40(4)224-236

Working Papers

• Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) 
• Big Fish in a Small Pool? The Effect of Competition on Performance (with Dan Bernhardt) 
• Can’t Stop the One-Armed Bandits: The Effects of Access to Gambling on Crime (with Ignacio Sarmiento and Andres Ham) 
• Information Policies and Higher Education Choices: Experimental evidence from Colombia (with Leonardo Bonilla and Andres Ham) 
• Does Gamification in Education Work? Experimental evidence from Chile (with Roberto Araya, Elena Arias Ortiz and Julian Cristia)
• Resource rents, coercion, and local development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa (with Paulo Bastos) – revise and resubmit 

Work in Progress

• Welfare Programs and Private Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from changes in SNAP eligibility 
• Social Image vs Self Esteem: evidence from discrete choice experiment (with Katsunori Yamada, Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Hitoshi Shigeoka