Publications
Refereed Publications
Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Pension Insurance Coverage in Colombia. (2025). International Social Security Review . 78(1/2025): 107-125.
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) .
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.
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.
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.
The Effect of Unemployment on Noncognitive Skills (2020).
Applied Economics Letters
27(17): 1387-1390.
Institutions, Parental Selection, and Locus of Control. (with Andrew Gill) (2018), Applied Economics Letters 25(15): 1041-1044.
Occupational Prestige and the Gender Wage Gap (with Anthony Dukes and Karl Fritjof Rasmussen) (2017). Kyklos 70(4): 565-593.
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.
Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions
(with Arthur van Soest) (2014).
Journal of Applied Econometrics
29(5): 567-585.
The Man of the House – How the Use of Household Head Characteristics leads to Omitted Variable Bias (2013). Economics Letters 119, 133-135.
An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice
(with Maria Knoth Humlum and Helena Skyt Nielsen) (2012).
Economic Inquiry
50(1), 39-61.
Family Background and Gender Differences in Educational Expectations
(2010)
Economics Letters
107: 125-127.
Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations? (2009). Journal of Economic Psychology 30: 701-710.
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.
The Colombian Pension System After the Reform of 1994: An Evaluation (2003). International Social Security Review 56 (1), 31-52.
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.