Brazilian income and wage distribution

“Can the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty and Inequality in the Developing World?
World Development, 2020.

“Growth with Redistribution: Did Brazil Show the Way?,” Journal of Economic
Inequality, 2019.

“Income distribution in Brazil: The Role of Male and Female Earnings,” World
Development, October 2009.

“The Distribution of Household Income in Brazil: Unequal and Immutable?,”
World Development, July 2008.

“Macroeconomic Performance and Poverty in Brazil,” Journal of Development
Studies, January 2006.

“Education and Changes in Brazilian Inequality,” Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, October 2004.

Health Economics

“Fetal origins of diabetes and ill health: Evidence from Puerto Rico’s 1928
and 1932 Hurricanes,” Economics and Human Biology, July 2013.

Migration

“Puerto Rican Migration Flows and the Theory of Migrant Self-Selection,”
World Development, March 2009.

Labor Supply

“Labor Supply and Public Transfers,” with Gary Burtless in The Economy of
Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth, Susan Collins, Barry Bosworth, and Miguel
Soto Class (eds.), Brookings Institution, 2006.

Poverty and inequality in Puerto Rico

“Distribution and Development: The Case of Puerto Rico,” World Development,
August 2004.

“Empleo, desempleo, pobreza y distribución del ingreso” in Globalización
y desarrollo: Desafı́os de Puerto Rico frente al siglo XXI, Economic
Commission for Latin America, United Nations, 2004.

“Pobreza en Puerto Rico: Una guı́a para la polı́tica pública,” in Ensayos sobre
la pobreza en Puerto Rico, Francisco Martı́nez and Francisco Catalá (eds.),
Unidad de Investigaciones Económicas, 2002.

“Análisis comparado de las estructuras de salarios de Puerto Rico y los Estados
Unidos,” Revista de Ciencias Sociales, June 2000.

“Pobreza y desigualdad: problemas y alternativas, El Futuro Económico de Puerto
Rico, Francisco Martı́nez (ed.), University of Puerto Rico Press, 1999.

Poverty and Income Inequality in Puerto Rico, 1970–90, Center for Social Research-
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, 1998.

“Cambios en la distribución de los salarios en Puerto Rico 1979–89: ¿A qué se de-
bieron?,” Revista de Ciencias Sociales, January 1997.

“Poverty and Income Inequality in Puerto Rico, 1969–89: Trends and Sources,”
The Review of Income and Wealth, March 1996.