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policy
‘Realizing the Promise of High Dosage Tutoring at Scale: Preliminary Evidence for the Field’ with Monica Bhatt, Terence Chau, Barbara Condliffe, Rebecca Davis, Jean Grossman, Jon Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Shira Mattera, Fatemeh Momeni, Philip Oreopoulos, and Greg Stoddard (2024)
This technical report outlines preliminary results from the Personalized Learning Initiative showing that high dosage tutoring can be scaled and can work – even when delivered in the aftermath of the pandemic and in diverse academic settings. link
‘More Tutoring Lessons from New Mexico: How the Shift to an In-School Model Expanded Access and Improved Attendance’ with Rachel McCormick, Janey Woo, Jackie Mendez, and Jean Grossman (2025)
This Issue Focus outlines the implementation and findings of a tutoring program in New Mexico, focusing on the logistical challenges and lessons learned from scaling up tutoring efforts to better support students in need. link
‘Diseño de indicadores de desempeño de universidades públicas para la determinación de acuerdos de desempeño con el Sector Educación’ with José Flor- Toro (2020) (in Spanish)
[Design of performance indicators for public colleges for the determination of sectoral funding agreements] – Available upon request
‘Los factores que limitan la transición a la Educación Superior: Situación actual y recomendaciones de política pública’ with Fabiola Alba Vivar, and José Flor-Toro (2020) (in Spanish)
[Factors limiting the transition to Higher Education: current situation and recommendations for public policy] – Available upon request
‘Consultoría para describir el efecto de la regulación universitaria en la inserción laboral de los egresados en el Perú, según familias de carreras’ with Fabiola Alba Vivar, and José Flor-Toro (2020) (in Spanish)
[Consultancy for the description of the effects of regulation on college graduates’ employment, by major groups] – Available upon request
research
‘College Expansion and Unequal Access to Education in Peru’ with José Flor-Toro
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Enrollment gaps are pervasive in developing countries, despite public investment and legislation aimed at democratizing access to college. We study the effects of opening new college campuses in underserved areas, a commonly proposed policy to reduce such gaps. Using Peruvian census data to estimate a difference in differences model, we find that enrollment increased by about 1p.p. or 10% in the short term. However, estimated effects for minority students are only half the size of others, widening preexisting gaps. To understand the drivers of this result, we assemble a new administrative dataset on college applications and build a model of education demand with heterogeneity in preferences and probability of admission. The results show that the interaction of initial advantage and meritocratic criteria increases educational inequality: even though proximity is highly valued by less-advantaged students, meritocratic admission criteria hinder poor and minority students, who disproportionately attend lower-quality high schools. Our counterfactuals show that addressing high school quality disparities is more likely to reduce college enrollment inequality than further supply expansions.
‘Vote for Hollywood: the Effects of US Indirect Propaganda on Italian Elections’ with Mario Cannella
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We document an unexplored medium affecting electoral choices: cinema. We study the effects of exposure to Hollywood movies on voting choices during the Cold War in Italy. We employ an instrumental variable approach, combining spatial access to cinema with time variation in the success of U.S. movies at the box office before elections. We find that greater exposure to U.S. movies before elections led to gains for U.S.-endorsed parties, and losses for the Italian Communist Party, while turnout was minimally affected.
‘College Licensing and Reputation Effects on the Labor Market’ with Fabiola Alba Vivar, and José Flor-Toro
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We study the effects on labor market outcomes of a licensing process that led to the closure of 1/3 of Peruvian colleges (2016-2021). Using a rich panel dataset of recent college graduates and a difference-in-differences model, we find an increase in wages for graduates from colleges that obtained a license and no significant effects for graduates from universities whose license was denied.
‘Improving the Distribution of Quality in Health Provision: Two Incentive Reforms in Peru’s Healthcare System’ with José Flor-Toro
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We examine the labor supply decisions of healthcare providers and their consequences in Peru. The Peruvian government implemented two incentive reforms to attract more and better providers to health centers serving poorer, rural populations thereby ameliorating the conditions of a large sector characterized by staff shortages and inequitable supply. Using two regression discontinuity designs, we find that career incentives are able to attract significantly more skilled physicians to the targeted areas but are almost ineffective for nurses; the opposite is true for monetary incentives, which attract more skilled nurses to the neediest areas. Differences in career trajectories and lifetime income likely explain the different reactions to incentives of physicians and nurses. Healthcare utilization and perceived quality of received services are not positively impacted, which could be due to (unobserved) effort or other characteristics of the providers most likely to respond to the incentives.
‘Persistent Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform’ with Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, and Giampaolo Lecce
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The impact of land redistribution on structural transformation is ambiguous. While large landowners may hinder industrialization by restricting access to education, larger farm scale can facilitate mechanization and productivity growth. This study uses novel fine-grained data to examine the long-term effects of the 1950 Italian land reform, which redistributed land from large to small landowners. Employing two difference-in-differences strategies, we find that redistribution slowed industrialization, with agglomeration forces emerging as a key mechanism, whereas education played a limited role. The reform’s effects on agricultural specialization persisted for at least 50 years, and expropriated areas experienced significantly lower income growth between 1970 and 2000.
talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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