Research
Publications and Working Papers
The Long-Term Effects of Teachers’ Gender Stereotypes on Labor OutcomesRevised - Mar 2025
Presented at Boston University, Bocconi University, Brookings Institution, CESifo, Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, London School of Economics, MIT BREAD, Nova School of Business and Economics, Ohio State University, Stanford PacDev
Abstract
Central Bank Independence: Views from History and Machine Learning(with Barry Eichengreen and Nergiz Dincer)
Annual Review of Economics, 2024
Does Education Increase Risk Aversion in Households? Some Evidence Using Artefactual Experiments in Peru(with Alberto Chong)
Latin American Economic Review, 2021
Selected Work in Progress
Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages(with Ellora Derenoncourt)
Media: Work Rise Network
Labor Force Misallocation in Market Creation: Consequences of a State-Mandated Commercial SystemNew - Apr 2025
Draft available upon request
Abstract
Building Negotiation Power: Experimental Evidence from Business Skills Training(with Dana Carney, Laura Chioda, and Paul Gertler)
Impacts of Maternal Mental Health Interventions on Child Development
(with Catherine Thomas, Paloma Bellatin, and Mayra Cabrera)
Book Chapters
An Unfulfilled Promise? The Quality of University Education and Professional Underemployment, with Lavado, P., Yamada, G.
In Chang, R. (ed.), Peruvian Economy: Miracle or Fiction?, 425-439. Critica (2024)
Persistent Effects of Professional Underemployment, 2004-2014: Evolution of Underemployment among University and Technical Institutes Graduates, with Lavado, P., Yamada, G.
In Yamada, G. & Lavado, P. (Eds.), Higher education and employment in Peru: A persistent gap, 157-195. Universidad del Pacífico (2017)
Higher Education Quality and Unequal Returns in Peru, with Lavado, P., Yamada, G
In Céspedes, N., Lavado, P. & Roldán, N. (Eds.), Productivity in Peru: measurement, determinants and implications, 221-249. Universidad del Pacífico Press (2016)
The Transition from School to Work: Analysis of the Supply and Demand for Employment of Young Workers without University Studies in Urban Areas, with P. Lavado and G. Yamada
Economia, 37 (74), 41-94 (2014)