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publications

Publications
Journal articles:

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“Financial literacy among Mexican high school teenagers” (2017) (with Alejandro Villagómez) International Review of Economics Education.

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“Does the effect of pollution on infant mortality differ between developing and developed countries? Evidence from Mexico City” (2016) (with Rema Hanna and Paulina Oliva) The Economic Journal, 126(591): 257-280.

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“Teenage pregnancy in Mexico: Evolution and consequences” (2014) (with Raymundo Campos), Latin American Journal of Economics, 51(1): 109-146.

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“Race and marriage in the labor market: A discrimination correspondence study in a developing country” (2014) (with Raymundo Campos), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 104(5): 376-380.

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“Evolución de la brecha salarial de género en México” (2014) (with Raymundo Campos), El Trimestre Económico, 81(1). Working paper version.

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“Impact of economic crises on mortality: The case of Mexico” (2010), Estudios Económicos, 25(1): 135-175.

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Book chapters:

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“La incursión de las mujeres en el trabajo fuera del hogar” (2016), in Galia García Palafox (ed.), ¿Oprimidas o Empoderadas?: Dónde están las mexicanas del siglo XXI, México: Travesías Media. 

 

“¿Quiénes son los NiNis en México?” (forthcoming) (with Raymundo Campos). Previous version: CIDE, División de Economía, Documento de Trabajo Núm. 524 (book chapter edited by UNDP).

 

“Determinantes intergeneracionales de la desocupación juvenil” (2015) in R. Campos, J. Huerta and R. Vélez (eds.), México, ¿el motor inmóvil?, México: CEEY.

 

“Discriminación en el mercado laboral mexicano: un experimento de campo” (2014) (with Raymundo Campos) in G. Meixueiro Nájera and S. Moreno Pérez (coords.), Premio Nacional de Investigación Social y de Opinión Pública 2012, CESOP: México, D.F, pp. 123-157.

 

“Drug-related violence and forced migration from Mexico to the United States” (2013) in G. Genna and D. Mayer-Foulkes (eds.), North American Integration: An Institutional Void in Migration, Security and Development, New York: Routledge.

 

“Estudio cuantitativo sobre desempleo en México y sus implicaciones para la participación laboral femenina” (2012), in Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (comp.) Género y Desarrollo II: Investigación para la igualdad sustantiva de las mujeres, México.

 

working papers and work in progress

Latest projects
working papers:

 

“Double-shift high schools and school performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design” (2016) (with Raymundo Campos and Carlos Muñoz)

 

“Do local labor market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination? (2015) (with Raymundo Campos)

 

“How does explicit discrimination in job ads interact with discrimination in callbacks?” (2015) (with Raymundo Campos) Version previa: CIDE, División de Economía, Documento de Trabajo No. 593.

 

“Job search, social interactions, and immigrants’ labor market performance” (2012). Versión previa: CIDE, División de Economía, Documento de Trabajo No. 489. (revise & resubmit Estudios Económicos)

 

“Labor supply of married women in Mexico: 1990–2000” (2011) (with Raymundo Campos). Versión previa: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos, DT-2010-16.

 

“Immigrants’ location choices: The role of networks’ labor market outcomes” (2011)

 

work in progress:

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“Droughts and labor choices in the adaptation to climate change: Evidence from Mexico” (with Danaé Hernández and Alejandro López-Feldman)

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“Remittance flows and informality: Evidence from Mexico” (with Andrea Miranda)

 

“Is there a causal effect of violence on obesity prevalence? An application of ego depletion” (with Carmen Hernández)

 

“Remittances and labor supply: The case of Peru” (with Roy Núñez)

 

“Impact of economic crises on mortality in Mexico: did social protection make a difference in 2008?”

 

 “Is there an effect of universal pensions on elderly mortality?”

 

“Impact of economic crises on fertility: The case of Mexico”

 

 “Gender wage gaps from the outset: An analysis of reservation wages in Mexico” (with Raymundo Campos)

 

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