Santiago Pérez
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Davis
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Research Affiliate, IZA
email: seperez@ucdavis.edu
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Working papers
[3] Who Benefits from Meritocracy? (with Diana Moreira) NBER Working Paper 30113
featured in Fordham Institute
[2] Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act (with Diana Moreira) NBER Working Paper 28665
featured in CATO Research Briefs in Economic Policy
[1] Railroads and the Rural to Urban Transition: Evidence from 19th-Century Argentina
Published
[7] Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration, Economic Journal, 2021
featured in Voxeu, La Nación, A Correction Podcast
[6] The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling (with Ran Abramitzky and Victor Lavy), Journal of Public Economics, 2021
[5] Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Elisa Jácome), The American Economic Review, 2021
featured in New York Times, New York Times (X2), AEA "Chart of the Week", Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Opinion, Forbes,, CBS, Vox, Vox (X2), NBER Digest, NPR, We are mitú, International Business Times, The Davis Enterprise, The California Aggie, NYT En Español, AEIdeas, Brookings Institution, El Universal, San Diego Tribune, Infobae, Psychology Today
[4] Automated Linking of Historical Data (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson and James Feigenbaum), Journal of Economic Literature, 2021
featured in Voxeu
[3] Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Across Three Continents, The Journal of Economic History, 2019
[2] Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: A Fully Automated Approach (with Ran Abramitzky and Roy Mill), Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2019
[1] The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in 19th-Century Argentina, The Journal of Economic History, 2017 (lead article)
Best Article by a Researcher under 35 (National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina)
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