"Deconstructing Job Search Behavior" Venue: Moncalieri, via Real Collegio 30 Abstract In this paper we empirically investigate job search, specifically how a number of theoretically relevant variables impact behavior in an online setting. We take advantage of an unusually rich proprietary dataset from a Chilean job board to document and interpret a number of facts.…

“College Major Choice: Sorting and Differential Returns to Skills”

"Early Childcare and Child Non Cognitive Outcomes" (with Daniela Del Boca and Chiara Daniela Pronzato) abstract In this study, we analyze the impact of formal early childcare on a number ofnon-cognitive child outcomes, conditional on several socio demographic characteristicsof the household and the child. Non cognitive skills were found to be particularlymalleable at young ages…

"Ethnic Favouritism: An Axiom of Politics?" NOTE: this is a Tuesday

"Personality Traits, Intrahousehold Allocation and the Gender Wage Gap"

"The Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution, Parental Altruism and Fertility Choice"

"Police Patrols and Crime"

"Loss Aversion in Politics"

"Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes"

"Hard Evidence and Welfare in Adverse Selection Environments" abstract I consider environments in which an agent with private information can acquire arbitrary hard evidence about his type before interacting with a principal. In a broad class of screening models, I show that there is always an equilibrium which interim Pareto-improves over the no-evidence benchmark whenever…

"Price discriminating minorities"

"Optimal Mirrleesian Taxation in Non-competitive Labor Markets"

"Cooperation in Social Dilemmas through Position Uncertainty" Abstract In a social dilemma, individual incentives and collective interests are at odds. We propose a simple mechanism to sustain full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of agents. Players sequentially decide whether to contribute to a public good. They observe the actions of some…