Research
Publications
Disparities in COVID-19's Impact on Employment and Household Consumption (with George-Levi Gayle). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Fourth Quarter 2022, 104(4), pp. 224-65.
The Unequal Responses to Pandemic-Induced Schooling Shocks (with George-Levi Gayle). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. First Quarter 2023, 105(1), pp. 51-65.
Working Papers
Are Cash Transfers Effective at Empowering Mothers? A Structural Evaluation of Mexico's Oportunidades [Online Appendix] (revision requested, Review of Economics and Statistics)
Conditional Cash Transfers and Intrahousehold Time Allocation: Evidence from Urban Mexico
The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave: Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation (with George-Levi Gayle and Andrés Hincapié) NBER Working Paper #31911, November 2023
In Utero Heat Exposure and Infant Health in Brazil (with Lorena Hakak and Sophie Mathes)
Work in Progress
Policies to Reduce and Redistribute Unpaid Work (with Mariya Brussevich) [Commissioned by Oxford Review of Economic Policy]
Divorce Law Reforms, Matrimonial Regimes and Family Behavior (with George-Levi Gayle and Andrew Shephard)
Quantifying the Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers (with Minsung Park)
Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 in the Presence of Informality (with Mariana Odio-Zuniga)
Parental Time Investment and Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Paid Parental Leave on Child Development in Germany (with Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Mariana Odio-Zuniga)
Other Publications (in Spanish)
Pobreza, Genero y Diferencias en la Participacion y Ocupacion en el Sector Informal en Mexico, with Juan Argaez, Cuadernos de Economia, 39(79) 279-301. January 2020.