Research
Work in Progress
Parental Preferences, Intrafamilial Early-Childhood Nutritional Allocations and Long-Run Adult Cognitive Skills and Health in Guatemala, with Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, and John A. Maluccio
R&R, Journal of Labor Economics.
- Using more than 50 years of longitudinal data from Guatemala, this paper studies parents inequality aversion in allocating early-life nutrition, and difference concerns depending on birth order and sex of their children.
Criminal Power Vacuum: The Effect of Ecuador’s Drug Lord’s Murder on Violence
- Utilizing a novel dataset tracking criminal organization presence over time in Ecuador, I investigate the impact of the murder of the leader of the largest Ecuadorian gang on homicide rates.
Affirmative Action and Heterogeneous Efforts, with Shubhangi Gupta
- Using Brazil’s Quotas Law, this project explores the heterogeneous effects of affirmative action on pre-college effort using DiD and Shift-Share IV approaches and administrative datasets.
Organized Crime and Societal Dynamics: Evidence from Manaus, Brazil, with Paula Pereda
- Using Synthetic control methodology, we analyze the effects of the crime group Família do Norte on labor market dynamics, educational attainment, and health outcomes.
Was inflation higher in regions that benefited most from the Emergency Aid program?
- Building on my bachelor thesis, this research seeks to study the effects of the Auxílio Emergencial (Emergency Aid) program on the prices of food, using a DiD estimator with continuous treatment and a panel dataset of geolocalized prices and beneficiaries in the municipality of São Paulo.