Working Papers (show abstracts)

1. Minimum Wages and Optimal Redistribution

2. Place-Based Redistribution (with C. Gaubert, P. Kline, and D. Yagan)

   • Revision requested at The American Economic Review

3. An Observational Implementation of the Outcome Test with an Application to Ethnic Prejudice in Pretrial Detentions (appendix) (with N. Grau) 

   • Revision requested at The Review of Economics and Statistics

4. Workplace Litigiousness and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Workers' Compensation Reform (with M. Lauletta)

5. Discrimination Against Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Pretrial Detentions (with P. Domínguez and N. Grau)

Selected Work in Progress (show abstracts)

1. Directed Search, Minimum Wages, and Job Applications: Evidence from an Online Job Board (with V. Escudero and H. Liepmann)

2. Sectoral Minimum Wages, Firms, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Uruguay (with M. Bergolo, R. Ceni, and M. Fondo)

Publications (show abstracts)

1. Do Policies and Institutions Matter for Pre-Tax Income Inequality? Cross-Country Evidence (appendix) (replication package)

   • 2022. International Tax and Public Finance 29 (1): pp. 20-52

2. Combining Discrimination Diagnostics to Identify Sources of Statistical Discrimination (appendix) (with P. Domínguez and N. Grau)

   • 2022. Economics Letters 212, 110294 

3. Trends in US Spatial Inequality: Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty (appendix) (replication package) (NBER wp) (with C. Gaubert, P. Kline, and D. Yagan) 

   • 2021. AEA Papers and Proceedings 111: pp 520-525 

4. Ambiguity and Long-Run Cooperation in Strategic Games (appendix) (code) (with M. Rojas)

   • 2021.  Oxford Economic Papers 73 (3): pp 1077-1098

5. Using Small Businesses for Individual Tax Planning: Evidence from Special Tax Regimes in Chile (with C. Agostini, E. Engel, and A. Repetto)

   • 2018. International Tax and Public Finance 25 (6): pp 1449-1489

Book Chapters (show abstracts)

1. Cómo diseñar impuestos: Teoría económica y evidencia empírica (in Spanish) 

   • 2021. In Impuestos justos para el Chile que viene: Diagnóstico y desafíos tributarios para un nuevo pacto fiscal, edited by J. Atria and C. Otero (book website), Fondo de Cultura Económica