“The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile”, with Sebastian Bustos, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, José Vila-Belda and Gabriel Zucman. Conditional accept at American Economic Journal: Policy. [link]
- Featured in ProMarket, Tagesanzeiger, VoxDev, UBS Center Videocast“Do Transfer Pricing Reforms Lead to a Boom in Tax Consultants?” with Juan Carlos Suarez. National Tax Journal, 2025. [link]
“Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement” with Maria Paula Gerardino and Stephan Litschig. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024. [link]
- Featured in La Tercera, Corriere del Trentino“Savings Accounts to Borrow Less: Experimental Evidence from Chile,” with Felipe Kast, Journal of Human Resources, 2024 (accepted 2021). [link]
- Featured in La Tercera“Ghosting the Tax Authority: Fake Firms and Tax Fraud in Ecuador” with Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson and Monica Singhal, American Economic Review: Insights, 2023. [link]
- Featured in VoxDev, VoxEU, VoxTalks, UBS Center Videocast“Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence,” with Rodrigo Adão, Paul Carrillo, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022. [link]
- Featured in VoxDev, MIT News“Traditional Audit Design May Distort Incentives.” with Maria Paula Gerardino and Stephan Litschig, In Public Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies, ed. by Oriana Bandiera, Erica Bosio, and Giancarlo Spagnolo, 83–90, CEPR Press, 2021. [link]
“Taking State-Capacity Research to The Field: Insights from Collaborations with Tax Authorities”, with José Vila-Belda. Annual Review of Economics, 2019. [link]
“Challenges of Monitoring Tax Compliance by Multinational Firms: Evidence from Chile”, with Sebastian Bustos, José Vila-Belda and Gabriel Zucman, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019. [link]
“Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile” with Felipe Kast and Stephan Meier. Journal of Development Economics, 2018. [link]
- Featured in Time, Business Insider, Freakonomics, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, Scientific American“Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement,” with Paul Carrillo and Monica Singhal. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017. [link]
- Winner of the Excellence Prize in Applied Development Research, VfS, 2018- Featured on BBC Radio, VoxDev“No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax,” American Economic Review, 2015. [link]
- Featured in New York Times, CNN, World Bank News, Bloomberg News, El País, La Tercera“Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Experiments and Comparison with Other Methods,” Public Finance Review, 2015. [link]
“Randomized Tax Enforcement Messages: A Policy Tool for Improving Audit Strategies,” with Pamela Castellon and Cristobal Marshall, Tax Administration Review, 2014 [link]
“Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Test Using Procurement Lotteries”, with Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson and Monica Singhal. Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review. NBER WP 31311. [link]
“Decreasing Emissions by Increasing Energy Access? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Off-Grid Solar”, with Adina Rom and Isabel Günther. [link]
“Weighted Subgroup Analysis for Regression Discontinuity Designs,” with Alvaro Carril, André Cazor, Maria Paula Gerardino and Stephan Litschig. [link]
“Strengthening the economic situation of domestic workers in Tanzania”, with Ronak Jain, Constantine Manda and Vincent Somville.
“Mobile money and flexible payment options to increase tax collection and minimize welfare loss” (DRC) with Arthur Laroche, Sarah Danner, Marina Ngoma, Gabriel Tourek and Jonathan Weigel.
“The role of individuals in determining corporate tax evasion” (Ecuador) with Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson and Monica Singhal.
“Union collective bargaining and wage compression” (Switzerland) with Arin Dube and Michael Siegenthaler.
“Geographic inequality of publications in economics research” with Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do and Urs Eichenberger.
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