NICOLAS BOTTAN
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Published Papers

  • ​Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia) - Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics  [replication files]​
  • Stepping Up During a Crisis: The Unintended Effects of a Noncontributory Pension Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Bridget Hoffman and Diego Vera) - Accepted at Journal of Development Economics
  • 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
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  • 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)​
  • Does Gamification in Education Work? Experimental evidence from Chile (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) 
  • Resource rents, coercion, and local development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa (with Paulo Bastos)  ​

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