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Working Papers

2022

1. Can Grit Be Taught? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
   Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2022) View citations (5)
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2021) View citations (1)

2019

2. Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (17)

2011

3. Higher education decisions in Peru: on the role of financial constraints, skills, and family background
   Working Papers, Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico View citations (5)

2008

4. Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (46)

2006

5. Bolivia Poverty Assessment: Establishing the Basis for Pro-Poor Growth
   World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
6. Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador
   CEDLAS, Working Papers, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata View citations (14)
   See also Journal Article Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador, Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc. (2011) View citations (4) (2011)

2005

7. Pending issues in protection, productivity growth, and poverty reduction
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)

2004

8. Informal Employment in Bolivia: A Lost Proposition?
   Working papers - Textos para Discussao do Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia, Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia
9. RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION IN BOLIVIA: AN ESCAPE BOAT?
   Anais do XXXII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 32nd Brazilian Economics Meeting], ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics] View citations (5)

2002

10. Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil
    IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (9)

2001

11. Are men benefiting from the new economy: male economic marginalization in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
12. Reducción de la pobreza y crecimiento económico: la doble casualidad
    Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones), Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)

1999

13. Individual Heterogeneity in the Returns to Schooling: Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression using Twins Data
    IIE, Working Papers, IIE, Universidad Nacional de La Plata View citations (3)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Papers, Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (1999) View citations (29)
    See also Journal Article Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data, Empirical Economics, Springer (2001) View citations (179) (2001)

Journal Articles

2011

1. Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador
   Journal of Income Distribution, 2011, 20, (1), 3-28 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador, CEDLAS, Working Papers (2006) View citations (14) (2006)

2001

2. Dynamic rates of return to education in the U.S
   Economics of Education Review, 2001, 20, (2), 121-138 View citations (10)
3. Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data
   Empirical Economics, 2001, 26, (1), 7-40 View citations (179)
   See also Working Paper Individual Heterogeneity in the Returns to Schooling: Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression using Twins Data, IIE, Working Papers (1999) View citations (3) (1999)

Books

2019

1. The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa
   (Le développement des compétences en Afrique subsaharienne, un exercice d’équilibre)
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (3)

2014

2. Back to Work: Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (65)
3. The Inverting Pyramid: Pension Systems Facing Demographic Challenges in Europe and Central Asia
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (20)

2009

4. Políticas para la acumulación de capital humano en América Latina y el Caribe
   Coediciones, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)

2007

5. Informality: Exit and Exclusion
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (523)
6. Reducción de la pobreza y la desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe: promesas y retos para las políticas públicas
   Libros y Documentos Institucionales, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) View citations (1)

2006

7. Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (79)

2004

8. Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America
   IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (44)

Chapters

2016

1. Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
   Chapter 8 in Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias, 2016, vol. 1, pp 195-219