Research
Publications and Forthcoming:
Do school shootings erode property values? (Joint with Ruchi Singh) Online Appendix - Accepted at Regional Science and Urban Economics
Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention (Joint with Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason Kerwin, Jeff Smith, and Rebecca Thornton) - Forthcoming at Journal of Econometrics.
2018 The Economics Behind the Math Gender Gap: Colombian Evidence on the Role of Sample Selection. Journal of Development Economics, 135: pp. 368-391. [paper]
Featured in Marginal Revolution
2015 Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America, Is the glass half empty or half full?, Joint with Marina Bassi and Matías Busso. Economia Journal. Fall 2015. pp. 113-156.
Press Coverage: Huffington Post
Working Papers:
Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates (Joint with Matías Busso and Sebastián Montaño)
Chapters in Books:
2014 "Women and Social Mobility" (in spanish) , with Ximena Peña, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Jorge Castañeda, and Camila Uribe, in Armando Montenegro and Marcela Meléndez (eds.), Equidad y Movilidad Social, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
Op-eds:
2016 "País(es) Divergente(s): Radiografía del Plebiscito" (In Spanish). Joint work with Juan Herreno.
Press Coverage: CNN, El Espectador, Pulzo.
Work in Progress:
Long-Term Direct and Intra-household Spillover Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Experimental Evidence from Colombia (Joint with Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Leonardo Bonilla, and Matías Busso)
Opportunity Costs and the Local Effects of Migration (Joint with Mateo Arbeláez and Nicolás Urdaneta)
Seasonality, Calendar Adjustment, and School Enrolment: Evidence from rural Colombia (Joint with Abu Shonchoy, Sebastián Montaño, and Anderson Tami)