RCT Evaluation
Investing in schooling in Chile: The role of information about financial aid for higher education (with Taryn Dinkelman) (2011)
Recent research demonstrates that imperfect information about returns to education distorts schooling investments. Questions remain...
Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador (with Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, and Dean Yang) (2011)
We implemented a randomized field experiment investigating the importance of migrant control over remittances sent...
Micro Entrepreneurship Support Program in Chile: Impact Evaluation (with Jaime Ruiz-Tagle and Esteban Puentes) (2010)
Public Finance
Equidad Tributaria Horizontal en el Impuesto al Ingreso en Chile (with Claudio Agostini and Barbara Flores) (2011)
En este trabajo, se estiman los efectos distributivos de eliminar el tratamiento diferencial de ingresos...
Other Impact Evaluation
Intra- Household Allocation and Bargaining Power: Evidence from Chile, Economic Development and Cultural Change (forthcoming) (2012)
Until 1999, children born out of wedlock in Chile had fewer child support rights than...
Voluntary Savings, Financial Behavior and Pension Finance Literacy: Evidence from Chile (with Oscar Landerretche) (2011)
Chileans have limited knowledge of the pension system, its rules and the consequences involved in...