Publications

Refereed Publications

Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Pension Insurance Coverage in Colombia. (2025).  International Social Security Review. 78(1/2025): 107-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.12384

Socio-economic Circumstances at Birth and Early Motherhood: The Case of the “Daughters of the Wall”. (2024). Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik). https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2022-0017.

The Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on the Noncognitive Skill of Conscientiousness (with Iryna Hayduk). (2023). B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 23(4): 1137-1154. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2022-0365.

Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage: Negative parental selection, economic upheaval, and smoking (with Andrew Gill). (2022) CSUF Department of Economics Working Paper 2020/009R2 (pdf). Journal of Family and Economic Issues 43: 799-814. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-021-09791-3 .

The Effect of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on Children’s Noncognitive Skills: Evidence from the German Reunification. (with Andrew Gill)  (2020). CSUF Department of Economics Working Paper 2018/R008 (pdf) Applied Economics 52(51): 5595-5612. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2020.1770189 .

The Effect of Unemployment on Noncognitive Skills (2020).  Applied Economics Letters 27(17): 1387-1390. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1683140 .

Institutions, Parental Selection, and Locus of Control. (with Andrew Gill) (2018),  Applied Economics Letters 25(15): 1041-1044. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1391998 .

Occupational Prestige and the Gender Wage Gap (with Anthony Dukes and Karl Fritjof Rasmussen) (2017).  Kyklos  70(4): 565-593. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12149 .

The Effect of a Severe Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes (with Nabanita Datta Gupta and Mona Larsen) (2015).  Social Science & Medicine  136-137: 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.05.008 .

Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions
(with Arthur van Soest) (2014).  Journal of Applied Econometrics  29(5): 567-585. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1715437 .

The Man of the House – How the Use of Household Head Characteristics leads to Omitted Variable Bias (2013). Economics Letters 119, 133-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.01.031 .

An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice
(with Maria Knoth Humlum and Helena Skyt Nielsen) (2012).  Economic Inquiry  50(1), 39-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00234.x .

Family Background and Gender Differences in Educational Expectations
(2010)  Economics Letters  107: 125-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.002 .

Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations? 
(2009).  Journal of Economic Psychology  30: 701-710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2009.03.006 .

Intertemporal Consumption with Directly Measured Welfare Functions and Subjective Expectations 
(with Arie Kapteyn and Arthur van Soest) (2009).  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization  72, 425-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.03.021 .

The Colombian Pension System After the Reform of 1994: An Evaluation (2003).  International Social Security Review  56 (1), 31-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-246x.00148 .

 
Selected Other Publications

Kann Kollusion die hohen Rentenversicherungsgebühren in Kolumbien erklären? (Can Collusion explain the high fees for pension insurance in Colombia?) (with Anthony Dukes), 2005. In: Fritz, Barbara and Katja Hujo (eds.):  Oekonomie unter den Bedingungen Lateinamerikas: Erkundungen zu Geld und Kredit, Sozialpolitik und Umwelt,  Schriftenreihe des Instituts fuer Iberoamerika-Kunde, Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert, 213-229.

Do individuals make informed pension program choices? Evidence from Colombia, 2004. In: Peter Kemp and Einar Overbye (eds.):  Pensions: Challenges and Reform,  Aldershot: Ashgate, 71-83.

La Elección de un Programa de Pensión: La experiencia de Colombia (Determinants of Pension Choice: The Case of Colombia), 2004. In: Katja Hujo, Manfred Nitsch and Carmelo Mesa-Lago (eds.):  Públicos o Privados? Los sistemas de pensiones en América latina después de dos décadas de reformas,  Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 175-203.