Research

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. [Ungated]
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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]
Deconstructing the hedonic treadmill: Is happiness autoregressive? (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) - The Journal of Socio-Economics, May 2011, 40(4)224-236. [Ungated]

Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) - revise and resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics
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 Gamification in Education Work? Experimental evidence from Chile (with Roberto Araya, Elena Arias Ortiz and Julian Cristia)
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Home Sales (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia)
Resource rents, coercion, and local development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa (with Paulo Bastos) – revise and resubmit
The unequal burden of the Coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (with Bridget Hoffman and Diego Vera) - under review
Building resilience during the pandemic: evidence from a cash transfer program in Bolivia (with Bridget Hoffman and Diego Vera)

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
Coronavirus in Latin America and the Caribbean. (with Bridget Hoffmann and Diego Vera)