Publications

Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile, with Sonia Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke and Pilar Larroulet.

WIDER Working Paper 2021/189.

Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics

[Paper]

Does Economics Make You Sexist?, with Valentina Paredes and Daniele Paserman

NBER Working Paper 27070.

Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics

[Paper]

The Tyranny of the Single Minded: Guns, Environment and Abortion, with Laurent Bouton, Paola Conconi and Maurizio Zanardi.

Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(1), 48-59 (2021).

CEPR Discussion Paper 12801 (with a different title).

[Paper]

Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal, with Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty and Dilip Mookherjee.

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2), 205-237 (2019).

[Paper]

Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2003: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes, with Pranab Bardhan, Mike Luca and Dilip Mookherjee.

Journal of Development Economics, 110, 171-190 (2014)

[Paper] [Online Appendix]

Chilean Pension Reform: Coverage Facts and Policy Alternatives, with Solange Berstein and Guillermo Larrain,

Journal Economia, 6, 125-137 (2006)

[Paper]

Recent working papers

Freedom of the Press? Catholic Censorship during the Counter-Reformation, with Sascha Becker and Jordi Vidal-Robert

CEPR Discussion Paper 16092.

[Paper]

To Pill or Not to Pill? Access to Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Behaviour, with Ana Nuevo-Chiquero

IZA Discussion Paper 12076 (submitted).

[Paper]

Does Facial Structure Explain Differences in Students Evaluations of Teaching? The Role of Perceived Dominance, with Valentina Paredes and David Díaz

Serie Documentos de Trabajo, No. 483, Department of Economics, University of Chile (submitted).

[Paper]

Is There Gender Bias Among Voters? Evidence from the Chilean Congressional Elections. ECARES Working Paper 2014-53 (submitted).

[Paper]

Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States, with Jordi Vidal-Robert.     IZA Discussion Paper 12911 (submitted).

[Paper] [Online Appendix]

Female Political Representation and Violence Against Women: Evidence from Brazil, with Magdalena Delaporte.
IZA Discussion Paper 15365.

[Paper]

Guns and Votes, with Laurent Bouton, Paola Conconi and Maurizio Zanardi.

CEPR Discussion Paper 9726 and NBER Working Paper 20253.

[Paper] [Media Coverage: VoxEU, The Economist, The Washington Post, ProMarket]

2+1<3: Strategic Voting in the Chilean Parliamentary Elections.

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Work in progress

The Roots of the Modern American Presidential Campaign, with Laura Salisbury.

Long Live the Pope! Life Expectancy in the Catholic Church Hierarchy, with Jordi Vidal- Robert.

Selling Your Vote at Home: How Granting Female Voting Rights Altered Men's Voting Patterns, with Jeanne Lafortune.