I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile. My primary research interests include poverty, welfare state, analytical sociology, longitudinal surveys and Latin America. My current work draws on research in behavior of poor and welfare systems in comparative perspective in order to provide a micro-theory of how actors facing institutional constraints form expectations about the consequences of their behavior. I am also interested in quantitative methodology, particularly in applying rigorous causal inference based on experimental and observational research designs to substantive social problems.

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