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Journal articles (most relevant)

Testing for Asymmetric Information in Private Health Insurance. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. (joint with P. Olivella)

 Early childhood stimulation benefits adult competence and reduces violent behavior. Pediatrics 127(5), 2011, pp. 849-857 (joint with S. Walker, S. Chang, and S. Grantham-McGregor)

Are Tax Subsidies for Private Medical Insurance Self-financing? Evidence from a Microsimulation ModelJournal of Health Economics, Vol. 27, 2008, pp. 1285-1298 (Joint with A. López-Nicolás).
Read the comment on the article published by Prof. G. López-Casasnovas (only in Spanish)


Competition Among Differentiated Health Plans under Adverse SelectionJournal of Health Economics, vol 26, issue 2, pp. 233-250. (joint with P. Olivella)
This paper was awarded the prize of best article (ex-aequo) in health economics by the Spanish Health Economics Association in 2007

Counts with an Endogenous Dummy Regressor: A Series Expansion Approach”, The Econometrics Journal, Vol. 8(1), June 2005, pp. 1-22. (joint with A. Romeu)

Structural Estimation of a Principal-Agent Model: Moral Hazard in Medical Insurance”, The Rand Journal of Economics, Vol.34, No. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 670-693

Duplicate Coverage and Demand for Health Care. The Case of Catalonia”. Health Economics Vol. 8, No. 7, November 1999, pp. 579-598
This paper was awarded the second prize of the student competition of the 2nd World Conference of the International Health Economics Association


Journal articles (other peer reviewed articles)


How Complex are the Contracts Offered by Health Plans?SERIEs (Journal of the Spanish Economics Association) 1(3), 2010, pp. 305-323 (Joint with P. Olivella) 

Pre- and postnatal arsenic exposure and child development at 18 months of age: a cohort study in rural Bangladesh,” International Journal of Epidemiology 39(5),  2010, pp. 1206-1216 (Joint with J. Hamadani,  S. Grantham-McGregor, F. Tofail, B. Nermell, B, Fangstrom, S. Huda, S. Yesmin, M. Rahman, S. Arifeen, M. Vahter)

Child Health in Rural Colombia. Determinants and Policy InterventionsEconomics and Human Biology, Special Issue on Child Health in Latin America. Edited by J. R. Behrman, E. Skoufias, Volume 2(3), December 2004, Pages 335-518 (joint with O. Attanasio, L.C. Gómez, and A. Gómez)

Book chapters and invited journal articles

The Evaluation of Public Policies” (In Spanish) in (eds.) Bagés, M., Fernández-Villaverde, J. and Garicano, L. E-book on the Law of Sustainable Economy. Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada. Madrid. Spain.

A Practitioner’s Guide to Evaluating the Impacts of Labor Market Programs”, World Bank Employment Policy Primer Issue No.12, December 2009. (joint with E. Fitzsimons).
Read a summary in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre website


Evaluating Public Health Interventions without Experiments,”(In Spanish) Gaceta Sanitaria Vo.17, 2003, (Journal of The Spanish Association of Public Health). Article requested by the Spanish Association of Health Economics.

“Interactions between Public and Private Health Insurance,” (In Spanish) in Casanova (eds) “Public and Private Interface in Health”. Masson. 2003


“Microeconometrics and Asymmetric Information: Applications to Health Care Utilisation” Cuadernos de Información Económica Num. 804. 2003, (Journal of the Economics Ministry in Spain).