Research

Publications

The Leaky Bucket: Transition Costs from Cash to Deposits in a Mexican Transfer Program

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla and Susan Parker

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024

Coverage: VoxDev
From Cash to Deposits: Effects on Women's Status and Well-Being

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla and Susan Parker

Economía, vol. 47, no. 93, 2024
The Giving Tree: Impacts of Deforestation on Birth Outcomes in Mexico

Job Garcia-Vara, Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla

Applied Economics Letters, 2024

Coverage: The Lancet Planetary Health
Earthquakes and Crimes Against Women

A. Silverio-Murillo, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, and J. Balmori-de-la-Miyar

Feminist Economics, 2024
C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, and Silvia Prina

The World Bank Economic Review, 2023
When Less Is More: Can Reduced Health Monitoring Improve Medication Adherence?

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla

Journal of Health Economics, vol. 75, 2021
Changes in Weight-Related Outcomes Among Adolescents Following Consumer Price Increases of Taxed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

T. Gracner, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, and D. Hernandez-Cortes

JAMA Pediatrics, 2021

Coverage: Freakonomics MD
The Unintended Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Stay-at-Home Orders on Abortions

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla and Biani Saavedra

Journal of Population Economics, vol. 35, no. 1, 2022
Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19: A Look at Mortality in Mexico City Using Individual-Level Data

A. Lopez-Feldman, D. Heres, and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Moving to Safety and Staying in School: The Effects of Violence on Enrollment Decisions in Mexico

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, F. Perez-Arce, and C. Rodriguez-Castelán

Review of Development Economics, vol. 23, no. 4, 2019
Grading Happiness: What Grading Systems Tell Us About Cross-Country Wellbeing Comparisons

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla and Jorge Alvarez

Economics Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018

Working Papers

Rolling Back Progresa: School and Work After the End of a Landmark Anti-Poverty Program

With Susan Parker and Tom Vogl

NBER Under Review

Coverage: The Economist · VoxDev · Bloomberg
Does Public Health Insurance Cause Crowding Into Public Facilities and Informality? The Case of Seguro Popular

With Janet Currie and Lucy Hackett

NBER Under Review
Midlife Crisis: The Effects of Menopause on Women's Labor Outcomes

With Laura Juarez

SSRN Under Review

Coverage: Project Syndicate · VoxEU
Back to Work or Back to the Maternity Ward? The Effects of Extending the School Day on Fertility

With Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez

SSRN Under Review
Mental Wellbeing Training Improves Healthcare Productivity

With L. Chernicoff, J.M. Olvera Puentes, L. Velarde, C. Dahl, S. Goldberg, R. Davidson, and M. Hirshberg

Under Review
After the CCTs Ended: Children's Health Outcomes Post Mexico's Iconic Prospera Program

With Susan Parker and Tom Vogl
In Her Shoes: How Information on Menstrual Symptoms Shapes Gendered Policy Preferences

With D. Alvarez, R. Campos, and P. Soto
Smaller Families, Less Inequality? Changes in Fertility Inequality from a County-Level Approach

With Lucy Hackett

Under Review
Health for Votes? Political Business Cycles and Birth Outcomes in Mexico

With H. Mendoza
Working for Change: The Effect of Female Labor Force Participation on Fertility

With Lucy Hackett
Bombing Good Bacteria? The Effect of Antibiotic Use on Child BMI

Work in Progress

The Intergenerational Effects of Mexico's Largest CCT Program on Newborn Health

With T. Gracner, S. Parker, M. Fabian, and T. Vogl
Bullying at Birth: Obstetric Violence Laws and C-Section Rates in Mexico
Sweet Beginnings: The Effects of a Sugar Tax on Birth Outcomes

With T. Gracner, L. Hackett, and K. Kapinos