MARCO A. BADILLA MAROTO

I am a fifth-year Economics PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.

My interests are: Labor and Development Economics, with a focus on Economics of Education.

Email: mbadilla@berkeley.edu

Link to my CV

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Work in Progress:

• Disrupting Education’s Old Guard: The Labor Market Effects of Replacing Traditional In-Class Exams with Group Projects, with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña (BCCR).
• Skill Returns and Mismatch: Evidence from Narrative Evaluations.
• Talent Heterogeneity and Misallocation, with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña (BCCR).
• Senior Migration, Local Economic Development and Spatial Inequality, with Benjamin Faber (UC Berkeley), Antoine Levy (UC Berkeley) and Mathilde Muñoz (UC Berkeley).

Publications:

• The Role of the Gender Wage Gap in Overall Wage Inequality: A quantitative exercise. Journal Economía-LACEA, Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2020, pp. 169-207. (PUBLICATION) (PRE-PRINT)