Publications     

"Economywide Effects of Digitalization" (with Marcio Cruz and Trang Thu Tran), Chapter 2. In: Digital Opportunities in African Businesses, edited by Cruz, Marcio, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024. Summary of Report.

"When the Identity of the Perpetrator Matters: The Heterogeneous Legacies of the Civil Conflict on Social Capital in Peru" (with Eduardo Malasquez), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 71, No 3, Pag. 1093-1148, 2023. Replication and Data.

"Legal Bans, Female Genital Cutting, and Education: Evidence from Senegal" (with Jorge Garcia-Hombrados) The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 37, Issue 1, Pages 74–92, 2023.

"Connecting to Economic Opportunity: the Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women’s Employment in Lima“ (with Daniel Martinez, Oscar Mitnik, Lynn Scholl and Patricia Yañez-Pagans) Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, Vol. 3, No 1, Pag. 1–23, 2020.

Working Papers

"Estimating the Number of Firms in Africa" (with Marcio Cruz, Florian Mölders and Ariane Volk) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 11032, 2025.

"Mapping Returns of Private Equity Investments in Emerging Markets" (with Florian Mölders) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 11025, 2025.

"Disruptive Technologies and Finance: An Analysis of Digital Startups in Africa" (with Marcio Cruz and Mariana Pereira-Lopez) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 10633, 2023. Summary.

"Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions: Causal Evidence from Limas Pico y Placa Policy" (with Oscar Mitnik) Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper Series No 01278, 2021.

"The effect of R&D growth on employment and self-employment in local labour markets" (with Tommaso Ciarli, Alberto Marzucchi and Maria Savona) Science Policy Research Unit Working Papers No 8, 2018.

"Do Low Wage workers benefit from Productivity Growth recovery?" (with Tommaso Ciarli and Maria Savona) Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2018.

"Regional financial development and firm growth in Peru" (with Eduardo Moron and Cristhian Seminario) Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper Series No 00398, 2013.

"Financial dependence, formal credit and firm informality: Evidence from Peruvian household data" (with Eduardo Moron and Cristhian Seminario) Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper Series No 00288, 2012.