Esteban Puentes

Puentes

Profesor Asociado

epuentes@fen.uchile.cl

Grados Académicos

Ingeniero Comercial, Universidad de Chile

Master of Arts en Economía, University of Chicago

Ph.D. en Economía, University of Chicago

Contribuciones Intelectuales Otro tipo de contribuciones intelectuales

Esteban Puentes es Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile.

Actualmente es Director Académico del Doctorado en Economía y del Magister en Economía. Se ha desempeñado como Director de la Escuela de Pregrado de Economía y Administración y como consultor para el Banco Mundial, Banco Interamericano del Desarrollo, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, entre otros. También fue académico invitado del Population Studies Center de la Universidad de Pensilvania, USA.

Área de especialización

Desarrollo Económico; Economía Laboral; Econometría Aplicada.

Contribuciones Intelectuales

Publicaciones en Revistas con Comité Editorial

2025 / Better strategies for saving more: Evidence from three interventions in Chile / Journal Of Development Economics

2024 / Socioeconomic Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Vocabulary and Socio-emotional Skills: Dynamic Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data / Population Research And Policy Review

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

2018 / The Effects of Micro Entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile / American Economic Journal-applied Economics

2017 / Inequality of Opportunities at Early Ages: Evidence from Chile / Journal Of Development Studies

2017 / Self-employment and queues for wage work: evidence from Chile / Journal Of International Development

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

2014 / Improving the Measurement of the Relationship between Opportunities and Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Chile / Development Policy Review

2013 / The Union Effect on Wages in Chile: A Two-Stage Approach Using Panel Data / Labour

2012 / The evolution of opportunities for children in Chile, 1990-2006 / Cepal Review

2011 / The determinants of labour force participation and employment in Chile / Applied Economics

2007 / Self-employment in Chile, long run trends and education and age structures changes / Estudios De Economia

2007 / / Estudios De EconomiaEmpleo por cuenta propia en Chile, tendencias de largo plazo y cambios en la estructura educacional y etaria / Estudios De Economia

2005 / / Journal Of International DevelopmentFemale Labour Force Participation in Greater Santiago, Chile: 1957-1997. A synthetic cohort analysis / Journal Of International Development

Otro tipo de contribuciones intelectuales

Presentaciones de reuniones académicas/profesionales

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

Premios de Investigación

2024 / Understanding the Impact of Unions on Firm Outcomes and Worker Wages: A Longitudinal Study

2022 / Evaluación de Largo Plazo del Programa de Apoyo al Micro Emprendimiento

2022 / Micro-entrepreneurship Programs Effectiveness

2014 / Financial inclusion: Experimental evidence in Chile

Monografías o Working papers

2023 / The Impact of Subsidy Delivery Method on Savings Behavior: Experimental Evidence

2023 / Better Strategies for Saving More: Evidence from Three Interventions in Chile

2020 / Socioeconomic Gradients in Child Development: Evidence from a Chilean Longitudinal Study 2010 – 2017

2018 / The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Wages

2017 / Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data

2016 / Underemployment and Queues for Full Time Jobs: Evidence from Chile

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

2009 / Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia: ¿Quienes Son? ¿De Donde Vienen? ¿Para Donde Van?

2009 / The evolution of opportunities for children in Chile 1990-2006

2009 / Informal Jobs and Contribution to Social Security: Evidence from a Double Selection Model

2009 / Evidence for inequality of opportunities. A cohort analysis for Chile

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