Fields:  

Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconometrics.

 Interests:

 Local Economic Development, Income Inequality and Poverty, Discrimination,
Semiparametric Methods, Program Evaluation.

Working Papers

Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence From the Federal Empowerment Zone Program (with Patrick Kline). Revise and resubmit at AEJ Economic Policy.

Finite Sample Properties of Reweighting and Matching Estimators for Treatment Effects (with John DiNardo and Justin McCrary. (In progress, new version coming soon)

A Sequential Method of Moments Variance Estimator of Weighting Estimators of Average Treatment Effects. (In progress, new version coming soon)

Chapters, Books and Non-Refereed Publications

Ethnicity and MDGs in Latin America (with M. Cicowiez and L. Gasparini). UNDP Books. 2005.

Poverty, Growth and Inequality: Deciphering the Last Decade in Argentina (with M. Cicowiez and F. Cerimedo) Argentine Economic Association. 2004. (In Spanish)

Job and Worker Dynamics: The Hidden Side of the Labor Market (with A. Micco) Economic and Social Progress Report. Inter-American Development Bank. 2003.

Biases in the CPI: The Plutocratic Bias in Argentina (with A. Lodola and F. Cerimedo) Argentine Economic Association. 2000. (In Spanish).

Reform Proposal for the Buenos Aires Province Educational System, Cuadernos de Economia vol. 62. 2001. (In Spanish).