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Working papers

2026

  1. Cesar Chavez & Shuaizhang Feng & James J. Heckman & Zhe Yang, 2026, "Relating Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits to Economic Preferences: Decision-Making under Cognitive Shocks and Guessing," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35526, Jul.

2025

  1. Igli Bajo & Frederik H. Bennhoff & Alessandro Ferrari, 2025, "Not-so-Cleansing Recessions," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2511.09162, Nov, revised Feb 2026.
  2. Chiappori, Pierre-André & Costa Dias, Monica & Meghir, Costas & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2025, "Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the US," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20271, May.

2023

  1. Bennhoff, Frederik H. & García, Jorge Luis & Leaf, Duncan Ermini, 2023, "The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 16370, Aug.
  2. David W. Berger & Kyle F. Herkenhoff & Simon Mongey & Negin Mousavi, 2023, "Monopsony Amplifies Distortions from Progressive Taxes," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 31972, Dec.
  3. James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto, 2023, "Econometric Causality: The Central Role of Thought Experiments," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 31945, Dec.
  4. James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto & Azeem Shaikh, 2023, "Dealing with Imperfect Randomization: Inference for the HighScope Perry Preschool Program," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 31982, Dec.
  5. Ce Liu & Ziwei Wang & Hanzhe Zhang, 2023, "Self-Enforced Job Matching," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2308.13899, Aug.
  6. Koh, Yumi & Li, Jing & Wu, Yifan & Yi, Junjian & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2023, "Young Women in Cities," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 16353, Jul.

2022

  1. Uribe, Adolfo & Chávez, Carlos & Gómez, Walter & Jaime, Marcela & Bluffstone, Randy, 2022, "Private Benefits from Ambient Air Pollution Reduction Policies: Evidence from the Household Heating Stove Replacement Program in Chile," EfD Discussion Paper, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg, number 22-18, Oct.
  2. Carlos Chavez & Mr. Gonzalo Salinas & Yuri Zamora, 2022, "Closing Peru's Ethnic Gaps Amidst Sustained Economic Growth," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2022/180, Sep.
  3. James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto, 2022, "Causality and Econometrics," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 29787, Feb.

2021

  1. Jorge Luis Garcia & Frederik Bennhoff & Duncan Ermini Leaf & James J. Heckman, 2021, "The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education," Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, number 2021-033, Jun.
  2. Anne E. Fitzpatrick & Sabrin A. Beg & Laura C. Derksen & Anne Karing & Jason T. Kerwin & Adrienne Lucas & Natalia Ordaz Reynoso & Munir Squires, 2021, "Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 28316, Jan.
  3. Paul Gertler & James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto & Susan M. Chang & Sally Grantham-McGregor & Christel Vermeersch & Susan Walker & Amika Wright, 2021, "Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 29292, Sep.
  4. Mehmet Ekmekci & Hanzhe Zhang, 2021, "Reputational Bargaining with Ultimatum Opportunities," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2105.01581, May.

2019

  1. Hanzhe Zhang, 2019, "An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 7872.

2017

  1. Christian Dippel & Robert Gold & Stephan Heblich & Rodrigo Pinto, 2017, "Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms: Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 6816.
  2. Heckman, James J. & Pinto, Rodrigo, 2017, "Unordered Monotonicity," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 10821, Jun.
  3. James J. Heckman & Margaret L. Holland & Kevin K. Makino & Rodrigo Pinto & Maria Rosales-Rueda, 2017, "An Analysis of the Memphis Nurse-Family Partnership Program," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 23610, Jul.
  4. Hanzhe Zhang, 2017, "Higher Career Cost Can Actually Explain Why More Women Than Men Go to College," Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, number 2017-064, Aug.

2015

  1. Gabriella Conti & James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto, 2015, "The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors," Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, number 2015-011, Jul.

2013

  1. Gertler, Paul & Heckman, James & Pinto, Rodrigo & Zanolini, Arianna & Vermeerch, Christel & Walker, Susan & Chang, Susan M. & Grantham-McGregor, Sally, 2013, "Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: A 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley, number qt8sz5p9vd, Mar.
  2. James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto, 2013, "Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs," Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, number 2013-006, Aug.
  3. James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto, 2013, "Causal Analysis after Haavelmo," Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, number 2013-008, Sep.

2012

  1. Heckman, James J. & Pinto, Rodrigo & Savelyev, Peter A., 2012, "Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 7040, Nov.

2011

  1. Heckman, James J. & Pinto, Rodrigo & Shaikh, Azeem M. & Yavitz, Adam, 2011, "Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 5625, Apr.

2010

  1. James Heckman & Seong Hyeok Moon & Rodrigo Pinto & Peter Savelyev & Adam Yavitz, 2010, "Analyzing social experiments as implemented: evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program," CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies, number CWP22/10, Aug.
  2. Heckman, James J. & Moon, Seong Hyeok & Pinto, Rodrigo & Savelyev, Peter A. & Yavitz, Adam, 2010, "Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 5095, Jul.
  3. Heckman, James J. & Moon, Seong Hyeok & Pinto, Rodrigo & Savelyev, Peter A. & Yavitz, Adam, 2010, "A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary," IZA Policy Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), number 17, Jul.

2009

  1. Heckman, James J. & Moon, Seong Hyeok & Pinto, Rodrigo & Savelyev, Peter A. & Yavitz, Adam, 2009, "The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 4533, Oct.

2004

  1. Martins, Betina Guimarães Dodsworth & Pinto, Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes & Bonomo, Marco Antônio Cesar, 2004, "Debt composition and exchange rate balance sheet effects in Brazil: a firm level analysis," FGV EPGE Economics Working Papers (Ensaios Economicos da EPGE), EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil), number 535, Mar.

Journal articles

2026

  1. Ce Liu & Ziwei Wang & Hanzhe Zhang, 2026, "Self-Enforced Job Matching," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, volume 18, issue 2, pages 110-145, May, DOI: 10.1257/mic.20240280.

2025

  1. Hu, Yunzhi & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2025, "Borrowing Stigma and Lender of Last Resort Policies," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, volume 60, issue 1, pages 374-405, February.
  2. Koh, Yumi & Li, Jing & Wu, Yifan & Yi, Junjian & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2025, "Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 172, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103378.
  3. Chuan, Amanda & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2025, "Pay it forward: Theory and experiment," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, volume 153, issue C, pages 294-314, DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2025.07.002.
  4. Mehmet Ekmekci & Hanzhe Zhang, 2025, "Reputational Bargaining with External Resolution Opportunities," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, volume 92, issue 4, pages 2472-2501.
  5. Pierre-André Chiappori & Monica Costa Dias & Costas Meghir & Hanzhe Zhang, 2025, "Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 133, issue 10, pages 3045-3077, DOI: 10.1086/736764.

2024

  1. Frederik H. Bennhoff & Jorge Luis García & Duncan Ermini Leaf, 2024, "The Dynastic Benefits of Early-Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, volume 18, issue 1, pages 44-73, DOI: 10.1086/728058.
  2. Carlos Chavez, 2024, "Estimating the Effects of Financial Liberalisation on Governability and Social Stability," Foreign Trade Review, , volume 59, issue 4, pages 588-614, November, DOI: 10.1177/00157325231173209.
  3. Carlos Chávez, 2024, "Minimum Wage and Ethnic-Gaps: Who are the Winners?," Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, Springer, volume 7, issue 2, pages 93-121, June, DOI: 10.1007/s41996-024-00136-4.
  4. Carlos Chavez, 2024, "Latin American Firm Cooperation Payoff Evidence," The International Trade Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 38, issue 5, pages 490-519, September, DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2023.2293059.
  5. Simin He & Jiabin Wu & Hanzhe Zhang & Xun Zhu, 2024, "Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, volume 16, issue 4, pages 406-439, November, DOI: 10.1257/mic.20230030.

2023

  1. Carlos Chavez, 2023, "Does foreign investment improve or worsens productivity? a panel var analysis," Revista de Economía y Finanzas (REyF), Asociación Cuadernos de Economía, volume 1, issue 1, pages 49-72, Enero.
  2. Chavez Carlos, 2023, "Domestic Violence, Labor Market, and Minimum Wage: Theory and Evidence," Review of Economics, De Gruyter, volume 74, issue 3, pages 195-233, November, DOI: 10.1515/roe-2023-0013.
  3. Carlos Chavez, 2023, "The effects of mining presence on inequality, labor income, and poverty: evidence from Peru," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, volume 36, issue 4, pages 615-642, December, DOI: 10.1007/s13563-023-00370-6.
  4. Zhang, Hanzhe & Zou, Ben, 2023, "A marriage-market perspective on risk-taking and career choices," European Economic Review, Elsevier, volume 152, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104379.
  5. Hiller, Victor & Wu, Jiabin & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2023, "Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, volume 210, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105671.

2022

  1. Jiabin Wu & Hanzhe Zhang, 2022, "Polarization, antipathy, and political activism," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, volume 60, issue 3, pages 1005-1017, July, DOI: 10.1111/ecin.13072.

2021

  1. Swinton, Scott & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2021, "Tractable Cubic Cost Functions for Teaching Microeconomics," Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR), Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, volume 3, issue 2, June, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312079.
  2. Zhang, Hanzhe, 2021, "The optimal sequence of prices and auctions," European Economic Review, Elsevier, volume 133, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103681.
  3. Wu, Jiabin & Zhang, Hanzhe, 2021, "Preference evolution in different matching markets," European Economic Review, Elsevier, volume 137, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103804.
  4. Hanzhe Zhang, 2021, "Prices versus auctions in large markets," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), volume 72, issue 4, pages 1297-1337, November, DOI: 10.1007/s00199-020-01313-w.
  5. Hanzhe Zhang, 2021, "An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 129, issue 5, pages 1464-1486, DOI: 10.1086/713097.

2020

  1. Pécastaing, Nicolas & Chávez, Carlos, 2020, "The impact of El Niño phenomenon on dry forest-dependent communities' welfare in the northern coast of Peru," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, volume 178, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106820.
  2. Kim Gannon & Hanzhe Zhang, 2020, "An Evolutionary Justification for Overconfidence," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 40, issue 3, pages 2494-2504.
  3. Zhang, Hanzhe, 2020, "Pre-matching gambles," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, volume 121, issue C, pages 76-89, DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2020.01.014.

2015

  1. Heckman, James & Pinto, Rodrigo, 2015, "Causal Analysis After Haavelmo," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, volume 31, issue 1, pages 115-151, February.
  2. James J. Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto, 2015, "Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 34, issue 1-2, pages 6-31, February, DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2014.944466.

2013

  1. James Heckman & Rodrigo Pinto & Peter Savelyev, 2013, "Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 103, issue 6, pages 2052-2086, October.
  2. Zhang, Hanzhe, 2013, "Evolutionary justifications for non-Bayesian beliefs," Economics Letters, Elsevier, volume 121, issue 2, pages 198-201, DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.016.

2010

  1. James Heckman & Seong Hyeok Moon & Rodrigo Pinto & Peter Savelyev & Adam Yavitz, 2010, "Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, volume 1, issue 1, pages 1-46, July, DOI: QE8.
  2. Heckman, James J. & Moon, Seong Hyeok & Pinto, Rodrigo & Savelyev, Peter A. & Yavitz, Adam, 2010, "The rate of return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, volume 94, issue 1-2, pages 114-128, February.

2003

  1. Bonomo, Marco & Martins, Betina & Pinto, Rodrigo, 2003, "Debt composition and exchange rate balance sheet effect in Brazil: a firm level analysis," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, volume 4, issue 4, pages 368-396, December.

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