Gustavo J. Bobonis

 

Working Papers and Work in Progress

 

[REVISED] "Does Combating Corruption Reduce Clientelism?”

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Paul Gertler, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Simeon Nichter.

Current version: March 2025 (NBER Working Paper #31266).

Status: Conditionally accepted, Economic Journal.

 

[NEW] "Improving Access to Justice for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Specialized Domestic Violence Courts in Puerto Rico.”

Carolina Arteaga, Gustavo J. Bobonis, Paola Salardi, and Dario Toman.

Current version: March 2025

Status: Presentation mode.

 

[REVISED] "A Helping Hand Goes a Long Way: Long-Term Effects of Counselling and Support to Welfare-to-Work Program Participants.”

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Aneta Bonikowska, Phillip Oreopoulos, W. Craig Riddell, and Steven P. Ryan.

Current version: May 2025 (NBER Working Paper #30405).

Status: Submitted.

 

[REVISED] "Norms of Corruption in Politicians’ Malfeasance."

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Anke Kessler, and Xin Zhao.

Current version: February 2025

Status: Submitted.

 

[REVISED] "Effects of Anti-Corruption Audits on Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Brazil.”

Antonio P. Ramos, Simeon Nichter, and Gustavo J. Bobonis.

Current version: October 2024

Status: Revise and resubmit (2nd round), Nature Human Behavior.

 

"The Effects of School Consolidation on Students and Teachers: Evidence from an Underperforming System."

Current version: December 2022.

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Orlando Sotomayor, and Jessica Wagner.

Status: Presentation mode / new version coming soon.

 

Selected Work in Progress

 

"Improving and Sustaining Management Practices: Evidence from Puerto Rico Public Schools.”

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Daniela Scur, Orlando Sotomayor, and Jessica Wagner.

Status: Fieldwork complete – analysis.

 

"Adopting Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) at Scale: Training and Supporting Teachers and Families to Use CAL Technologies in Puerto Rico Public Schools.”

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Philip Oreopoulos, Orlando Sotomayor, and Román A. Zárate.

Status: Fieldwork complete – analysis.

 

"Climate Change Adaptation in Brazil: Health Effects of Rainfed Water Cisterns.”

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Paul Gertler, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Simeon Nichter, and Edgar H. Sánchez Cuevas.

Status: Fieldwork complete – analysis.

 

 

Dormant Working Papers

 

"Traditional Governance, Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Public Goods Provision in Oaxaca, Mexico."

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Juan Camilo Chaparro, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro.

Status: Presentation mode (email me for latest draft).

 

"Challenging Corrupt Politicians?

Audits, Electoral Selection, and Accountability in Municipal Elections."

Luis R. Cámara Fuertes and Gustavo J. Bobonis.

Current version: January 2015

Status: Under revision / dormant.

 

 

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