Research

My research studies how incentives, information, and beliefs shape individual behavior and public policy outcomes. I focus on settings where prices, rules, or information are distorted, and where behavioral responses play a central role in the effectiveness of policy design. Methodologically, my work combines experimental and causal inference methods, including field and natural experiments, and the analysis of administrative data.

Publications

Imperfect Attention in Public Policy: A Field Experiment during a Tax Amnesty in Argentina
(with Carlos Scartascini)
Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper
https://doi.org/10.18235/0001661

Working Papers

Discretionary Procurement Flexibilization, Efficiency, and Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Chile During COVID-19 (with Anastasiya Yarygina-Udovenko and Gabriel Villalba Ortega)
Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper Series (2026) DOI

Price Distortions and Hoarding: An Experiment
(with César Martinelli)
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-45 (2023)
SSRN · DOI

Imperfect Attention in Public Policy: A Field Experiment during a Tax Amnesty in Argentina
(with Carlos Scartascini)
IDB Discussion Paper No. IDB-DP-665 (2019)
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Work in Progress

Affirmative Action, Sorting, and Efficiency in Competition for Selective Colleges
(with Stanislao Maldonado and Cesar Martinelli)
Beliefs About Price Controls and Zero-Sum Thinking
(with Stanislao Maldonado, Santiago Sautua, Joana Chapa and Lianet Farfan)
Fairness, Misinformation, and Tax Policy Preferences
(with Stanislao Maldonado)
How Does Flexibilization of Public Procurement Affect Its Efficiency?
(with Anastasiya Yarygina-Udovenko)
Patronage Networks and Favoritism in Colombian Public Procurement
(with Hugo Díaz)
Collective Deliberation: Theory and Experiment
(with Mikhail Freer and César Martinelli)