Biography
Esteban Puentes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad de Chile.
He is currently Alternate Director of the Millennium Nucleus in Social Development, Academic Director of the PhD in Economics and the Master in Economics and member of the board of the Chilean Economics Society.
He has served as undergraduate director of the School of Economics and Administration and as a consultant for the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, among others. He was also a visiting scholar at the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Research Areas
Economic Development, Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics.
Contact
epuentes@fen.uchile.cl
Publicaciones en Revistas con Comité Editorial
- 2025 / Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile / JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS / - No. 103405
- 2024 / Socioeconomic Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Vocabulary and Socio-emotional Skills: Dynamic Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data / POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW / - No. 1
- 2022 / Socioeconomic Gradients in Child Development: Evidence from a Chilean Longitudinal Study 2010 – 2017 / Advances in Life Course Research
- 2022 / You are what your parents expect: Height and local reference points / JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
- 2018 / Micro-entrepreneurship Debt Level and Access to Credit: Short-Term Impacts of a Financial Literacy Program / European Journal of Development Research / - No. 4
- 2018 / The Effects of Micro Entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile / American Economic Journal-Applied Economics / - No. 2
- 2017 / Inequality of Opportunities at Early Ages: Evidence from Chile / JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES / - No. 10
- 2017 / Self-employment and queues for wage work: evidence from Chile / Journal of International Development / - No. 4
- 2016 / Early Life Height and Weight Production Functions with Endogenous Energy and Protein Inputs / Economics & Human Biology
- 2015 / A multidimensional employment quality index for Brazil 2002-11 / INTERNATIONAL LABOUR REVIEW / - No. 2
- 2014 / Improving the Measurement of the Relationship between Opportunities and Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Chile / Development Policy Review / - No. 2
- 2013 / The Union Effect on Wages in Chile: A Two-Stage Approach Using Panel Data / Labour / - No. 2
- 2012 / The evolution of opportunities for children in Chile, 1990-2006 / Cepal Review / - No. 106
- 2011 / The determinants of labour force participation and employment in Chile / APPLIED ECONOMICS / - No. 21
- 2007 / Self-employment in Chile, long run trends and education and age structures changes / Estudios de Economia / - No. 2
- 2007 / Empleo por cuenta propia en Chile, tendencias de largo plazo y cambios en la estructura educacional y etaria / Estudios de Economia / - No. 2
- 2005 / Female Labour Force Participation in Greater Santiago, Chile: 1957-1997. A synthetic cohort analysis / Journal of International Development / - No. 2
Academic/Professional meeting Proceedings
- 2011 / The union effect on wages in Chile: a two-stage approach using panel data / - No. 332
Research Monographs
- 2023 / The Impact of Subsidy Delivery Method on Savings Behavior: Experimental Evidence / - No. 548
- 2023 / Better Strategies for Saving More: Evidence from Three Interventions in Chile / - No. 545
- 2020 / Socioeconomic Gradients in Child Development: Evidence from a Chilean Longitudinal Study 2010 – 2017 / - No. 509
- 2018 / The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Wages / - No. 466
- 2017 / Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data / - No. 454
- 2016 / Underemployment and Queues for Full Time Jobs: Evidence from Chile / - No. 432
- 2015 / Do Micro-Entrepreneurship Programs Increase Wage-Work? Evidence from Chile
- 2013 / Micro-Entrepreneurship Training and Asset Transfers: Short Term Impacts on the Poor
- 2012 / Inequality of Opportunity in Health and Cognitive Abilities: The Case of Chile
- 2012 / Female Labor Supply and Child Care Supply in Chile
- 2012 / Multidimensional Measure of Job Quality: Persistence and Heterogeneity in a Developing Country
- 2011 / Use of Financial Instruments in rural Thailand
- 2011 / Poverty transitions: evidence for income and multidimensional indicators / - No. 333
- 2009 / Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia: ¿Quienes Son? ¿De Donde Vienen? ¿Para Donde Van? / - No. 308
- 2009 / The evolution of opportunities for children in Chile 1990-2006 / - No. 297
- 2009 / Informal Jobs and Contribution to Social Security: Evidence from a Double Selection Model / - No. 307
- 2009 / Evidence for inequality of opportunities. A cohort analysis for Chile / - No. 298
- 2000 / Tasa de participación femenina: 1957 - 1997. Un análisis de cohortes sintéticos
Columna de Opinión
- 2024 / Negociación ramal, ¿hacia dónde debemos mirar?
- 2024 / Futuro laboral de los jóvenes y los mayores de 55 años
Academic/Professional meeting Presentations
- 2021 / Experimental Evaluation of Subsidy Payment through Banking Accounts
- 2019 / Experimental Evaluation of Subsidy Payment through Banking Accounts
- 2018 / You are What Your Parents Think: Height and Local Reference Points
- 2018 / Experimental Evaluation of Subsidy Payment through Banking Accounts
- 2017 / Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers Through Bank Accounts: An experimental Evaluation
- 2015 / Do Micro-Entrepreneurship Programs Increase Wage-Work? Evidence from Chile
Competitive Research Awards Received
- 2024 / Understanding the Impact of Unions on Firm Outcomes and Worker Wages: A Longitudinal Study / - No. 1241806
- 2022 / Evaluación de Largo Plazo del Programa de Apoyo al Micro Emprendimiento
- 2022 / Micro-entrepreneurship Programs Effectiveness
- 2014 / Financial inclusion: Experimental evidence in Chile / - No. 1140914