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Working Papers

2025

1. Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru
   Post-Print, HAL
   Also in Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica (2021) View citations (1)
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2025)
   PSE Working Papers, HAL (2024)
   Working Papers, HAL (2024)

2024

2. Money and lies: proxy respondents and the mismeasurement of income in surveys
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica

2023

3. Rule-Based Civil Service: Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
   Also in Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica (2023)
4. Skills and selection into teaching: evidence from Latin America
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
   Also in Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica (2020)

2022

5. The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica
6. What a difference a full day makes: Evidence from new schools in Fortaleza
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica

2021

7. Bureaucratic turnover across levels of government
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica
8. Do Large-Scale Student Assessments Really Capture Cognitive Skills ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
9. Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica
10. Going subnational: wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay
    Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica
    See also Journal Article Going subnational: Wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay, World Development, Elsevier (2022) (2022)

2020

11. My (Running) Mate, the Mayor: Political Ties and Access to Public Jobs in Ecuador
    Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica View citations (7)
12. Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab
    Documentos de Trabajo, The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) View citations (3)
    Also in Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica (2020) View citations (3)
    Documentos de Trabajo, Universidad del Rosario (2020) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Self-Selection into corruption: Evidence from the lab, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2021) View citations (3) (2021)

2018

13. Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico
    Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica View citations (5)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2018) View citations (5)

2017

14. Benefits to Elite Schools and the Expected Returns to Education: Evidence from Mexico City
    Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica View citations (19)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2017) View citations (16)
    PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2017) View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article Benefits to elite schools and the expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2017) View citations (17) (2017)
15. Poor Little Children: The Socio economic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
    CEDLAS, Working Papers, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata View citations (2)
    Also in Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica (2017) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (11) (2020)
16. Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico
    Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica
17. The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification
    Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica View citations (1)
    Also in Economics Working Papers, European University Institute (2016) View citations (1)

2015

18. Rules Rather than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction
    Economics Working Papers, European University Institute View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Rules versus Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2019) View citations (24) (2019)

2014

19. Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City
    Working Papers, HAL View citations (6)
    Also in PSE Working Papers, HAL (2014) View citations (7)
    CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb), CEPREMAP (2014) View citations (9)

2010

20. Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico
    IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank
    Also in Research Department Publications, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2010) View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Going subnational: Wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay
   World Development, 2022, 160, (C)
   See also Working Paper Going subnational: wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay, Research Department working papers (2021) (2021)
2. The effect of the demand for elite schools on stratification
   Economics Letters, 2022, 215, (C)

2021

3. Self-Selection into corruption: Evidence from the lab
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, (C), 799-812 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab, Documentos de Trabajo (2020) View citations (3) (2020)
4. What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico
   World Development, 2021, 146, (C) View citations (9)

2020

5. My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador
   Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, (C) View citations (7)
6. Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage
   Labour Economics, 2020, 66, (C) View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Poor Little Children: The Socio economic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage, CEDLAS, Working Papers (2017) View citations (2) (2017)

2019

7. Rules versus Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37, (2), 545 - 579 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper Rules Rather than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction, Economics Working Papers (2015) View citations (4) (2015)

2017

8. Benefits to elite schools and the expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City
   European Economic Review, 2017, 95, (C), 168-194 View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper Benefits to Elite Schools and the Expected Returns to Education: Evidence from Mexico City, Research Department working papers (2017) View citations (19) (2017)