MARCO A. BADILLA MAROTO

I am a fourth-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:

• Senior Migration, Local Economic Development and Spatial Inequality, with Benjamin Faber (UC Berkeley), Antoine Levy (UC Berkeley) and Mathilde Muñoz (UC Berkeley).
• Disrupting Education’s Old Guard: The Labor Market Effects of Replacing Class Exams for Group Projects, with Alonso Alfaro (BCCR).
• Insights on Talent Heterogeneity, with Alonso Alfaro (BCCR).

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)

• Importancia relativa de los beneficios intangibles de la Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED) en Zonas Francas en Costa Rica. Con Alonso Alfaro, Isabela Manelici y José Vásquez. Documento de investigación DI-08-2021, Departamento de Investigación, Banco Central de Costa Rica. (PUBLICATION)