Published Papers

• Resource rents, coercion, and local development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa (with Paulo Bastos) - Accepted: World Development, September 2023, Vol. 169, 106289. [Ungated]
• ​Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) - Review of Economics and Statistics, September 2022, Vol. 104 (5), pages 1010-1027. [replication files]​ [Ungated]
• Stepping Up During a Crisis: The Unintended Effects of a Noncontributory Pension Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Bridget Hoffman and Diego Vera) - Journal of Development Economics, May 2021, Vol. 150, 102635. [Ungated]
• The Unequal Burden of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (with Bridget Hoffman and Diego Vera) - PLoS ONE, 2020, 15(10): e0239797  [replication files]​
  Media: Newswise; Scientific News Agency Spain - Spanish;  SciDev - Spanish; 
• Information Policies and Higher Education Choices: Experimental evidence from Colombia (with Leonardo Bonilla and Andres Ham) - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, December 2019, Vol. 83. [Ungated]
• 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.​​ [Ungated]​
• 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. [Ungated]
  Supplemental Material: Animated map of US
  Media: Pacific Standard; Harvard Business Review; Clarin – Spanish​;
• Deconstructing the hedonic treadmill: Is happiness autoregressive? (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) - The Journal of Socio-Economics, May 2011, 40(4)224-236. [Ungated]

Working Papers

• Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Home Sales (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia)​
• The Double-Edged Sword of Gamification: Learning Gains and Unintended Consequences in Chilean Classrooms (with Roberto Araya, Elena Arias Ortiz and Julian Cristia)
• 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) 
• Does Education Prevent Job Loss During Downturns? Evidence from Exogenous School Assignments and Covid-19 in Barbados (with Diether Beuermann, Bridget Hoffmann, Kirabo Jackson, and Diego Vera-Cossio) 
  
• Backlash Against Expert Recommendations: Reactions to COVID-19 Advice in Latin America (with Facundo Albornoz, Guillermo Cruces, Bridget Hoffman and Maria Lombardi)

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)​