Assistant Professor, USC Marshall

Research Interests: Macro, Labor, Econometrics

​​Email: daruich (at) usc (dot) edu

PUBLICATIONS

Universal Basic Income: ​A Dynamic Assessment​ [paper, slides, bibtex, NPR, SSIR]

American Economic Review (2024)

with Raquel Fernandez​ 

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​The Effects of Partial Employment Protection Reforms: Evidence from Italy [paper, bibtex]

Review of Economic Studies (2023)

with Sabrina Di Addario and Raffaele Saggio 

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Macroeconomic Implications of Uniform Pricing [paper, online appendix, bibtex]​​​

AEJ:Macro (2023)

with Julian Kozlowski ​

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Explaining Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Fertility and Family Transfers [paper, bibtex]​​​

Review of Economic Dynamics (2020)

with Julian Kozlowski ​

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The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations [paper, bibtex, VOX]​​​

Journal of Development Economics (2019) 

with William Easterly and Ariell Reshef

WORKING PAPERS

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies [paper, slides, bibtex, NY Times]

Journal of Political Economy (R&R)

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​An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based ​Interventions on Children​ [paper, slides, bibtex]

American Economic Review (R&R)

​With Eric Chyn

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​The Consequences of Domestic Outsourcing: ​Evidence from Italian Administrative Data [paper, bibtex]​

With Martino Kuntze, Pascuel Plotkin and Raffaele Saggio 

WORK IN PROGRESS

​Zoning Out Opportunities: Exploring the Child Development Impact of Zoning Laws​

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Inequality Dynamics: A Life-Cycle Portfolio Model Perspective​

with Julian Kozlowski ​

OLDER RESEARCH

Productivity Losses from Attention to Aggregate Uncertainty
Revised and extended version of the master thesis presented at CEMFI.
Tato Bores, an Argentinean comedian, explains the idea in 1964 (in Spanish).