Published work
Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Gender Segregation in Public Transportation: Evidence from Mexico City’s Subway System, with Emilio Gutierrez and Paula Soto. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 64 (4), pp. 1379-1410. July 2021.
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The Effectiveness of Sin Food Taxes: Evidence from Mexico, with Emilio Gutierrez and Enrique Seira. Journal of Health Economics, 77 (102455). May 2021.
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Fidelity of Implementation of Prospera Digital: Evaluation of a Multi-Site mHealth Intervention Aimed at Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in Mexico, with Pablo Gaitán-Rossi , Selene De la Cerda, Alma C. Pérez, Manett Vargas, and Mireya Vilar-Compte. Current Developments in Nutrition 3 (10): nzz107. October 2019.
Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia, with Eliana Carranza, Markus Goldstein, Talip Kilic and Gbemisola Oseni, Agricultural Economics 46(3): pp. 311-334, May 2015.
Coping with La Crisis, with Georgia Hartman, David Keyes, Lisa Markman, and Max Matus in Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis. A Transational Perspective, Wayne Cornelius, David Fitzgerald, Pedro Lewin Fischer, and Leah Muse Orlinoff (eds.), Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, San Diego 2009.
Desigualdad de la Educación y de los Ingresos Laborales en México: la Importancia de la Calidad Educativa (with Maria E. Ortega Hesles), La Gaceta de Economía, Autumn 2007, 13(23): 11-50.
Working Papers
El Niño and Mexican Children: Medium-Term Effects of Early-Life Weather Shocks on Cognitive and Health Outcomes, with Marta Vicarelli. Revise & Resubmit at World Development. Latest version: June 2021.
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School Committees Versus Centralized Targeting. The Case of High-School Scholarships in Mexico. Latest version: February 2020
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Long-Term Effects of PROSPERA on Welfare, with Cristina Barnard and Giacomo de Giorgi. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9002. Latest version: September 2019
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The power of information and motivation on women’s maternal health: an application with ad-hoc SMS in Mexico’s Prospera program, with Manett Vargas. Latest version: August 2018
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Educational Self-Selection among U.S. Immigrants and Returning Migrants,” IZA Discussion Paper 7222
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Work in Progress
Centralized versus local-based targeting: Differences in grantees’ profile and effectiveness of scholarships.
Lying to get public resources. Changes in effectiveness and targeting results of making a process less vulnerable to falsifying information.
Moving from controlled-centralized targeting to self-selection. The case of Progresa’s transition from urban to rural.
The end of the road: Effects of Progresa schooling cash transfers being (expectedly) cut (with Oscar Noriega).
Improving service delivery through motivation on the user end: An application with pregnancy care. (with Manett Vargas)
Supporting healthier pregnancies and early child development one text at a time: Can personalized text messages, increased community participation and incentives to service providers help improve pregnancy and early childhood outcomes? (with Stewart Kettle, Luke Ravenscroft and Manett Vargas).
Segregation in Agriculture: How Important is it Explaining Gender Productivity Differences? (with Niklas Buehren and Markus Goldstein)