- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- School Choice and Performance
- Health and Medical Education
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Educational Research and Science Teaching
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Education Systems and Policy
- Foreign Language Teaching Methods
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Medical and Biological Sciences
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Problem and Project Based Learning
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Economic Policies and Impacts
Universidad de Los Andes, Chile
2018-2024
Universidad de Los Andes
2019
University of Maryland, College Park
2013-2018
National Bureau of Economic Research
2013-2018
University of Granma
2018
Ministry of Health
2013
University of Chicago
2013
We analyze the economic returns to post-secondary degrees in Chile. posit a schooling decision model with unobserved ability, degree-specific tuition costs, and earnings. use administrative records carry out our empirical analysis. Our results show positive average education, especially for five-year degrees. However, we also uncover significant heterogeneity. document how characteristics (ability) determine benefits of first- second-best choices, even leading negative findings illustrate...
Summary This paper estimates the dynamic returns to job training. We posit a model of sequential training participation, where decisions and outcomes depend on observed unobserved characteristics. analyze different treatment effects, including policy relevant parameters, link them continuation values latent skills. The empirical analysis exploits administrative data combining records, matched employee‐employer information, pre‐labor market ability measures from Chile. Although average are...
To assess the correlation between perception of learning environment and approach to adopted by anesthesiology residents throughout training in an academic institution United States.This is a cross-sectional study involving forty-one who completed electronic forms Revised Two-Factor Study Process Questionnaire approaches, Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure questionnaire environment. Convenience sampling was used with current residents. Learning approaches were analyzed multiple...
Workfare can impact child development by inducing parents to spend less time at home. I study the mechanisms which workfare policies affect children using New Hope experiment. The program randomly assigned individuals a policy bundle including income and childcare subsidies conditional on full-time work. For families with young children, had positive effects academic performance classroom behavior. Counterfactual experiments from dynamic discrete choice model indicate that most of effect is...