Publications

Barrera‐Osorio, F., de Barros, A., & Filmer, D. (2024). “Long‐term impacts of primary school scholarships: Evidence from Cambodia.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(1), 10–38.

Barrera-Osorio, F., Kugler, A. D., & Silliman, M. I. (2023). “Hard and soft skills in vocational training: experimental evidence from Colombia.” The World Bank Economic Review Vol.37 (3), p.409-436 

Barrera-Osorio, F., J. Cilliers, M.H. Cloutier, & D. Filmer, (2022) “Heterogenous Teacher Effects of Two Incentive Schemes: Evidence from a Low-Income Country,” Journal of Development Economics, 156 

Barrera-Osorio, F., Blakeslee, D. S., Hoover, M., Linden, L., Raju, D., & Ryan, S. P. (2022). “Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(3), 399–416.

Barrera-Osorio, F., Gonzalez, K., Lagos, F., & Deming, D. (2020) “Effects, Timing and Heterogeneity of the Provision of Information in Education: An Experimental Evaluation in Colombia.” Journal of Public Economics, 186.

Barrera-Osorio, F., de Galbert, P., Habyarimana, J., & Sabarwal, S. (2020). “Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Private School Performance.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 68(2), 429-469

Ganimian, A. F. Barrera-Osorio, M. L. Biehl, M. Cortelezzi, D. Valencia (2020). “Hard Cash and Soft Skills: Experimental Evidence on Combining Scholarships and Mentoring in Argentina.” Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 13(2), 380-400

Barrera-Osorio, F., de Barros, A., Dryden-Peterson, S., Mulimbi, B., Nakajima, N., &  

Uccelli, P. (2020) “Levers for Learning: The relation between school-level factors and literacy outcomes in low-income schools in Colombia.” Comparative Education Review, 64(2)

Barrera-Osorio, F., Linden, L., & Saavedra, J. (2019). “Long Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia.” American Economic Journal, Applied Economics11(3), 54-91

Barrera-Osorio, F. & H. Bayona-Rodriguez (2019) “Signaling or better human capital, the causal effect of prestigious university attendance on educational trajectory and labor market: evidence from Colombia.” Economics of Education Review 70, 20-34

Barrera-Osorio, F., S. Garcia, C. Rodriguez, F. Sanchez & M. Arbelaez (2018). “Concentrating efforts on low-performing schools: impact estimates from a quasi-experimental design.” Economics of Education Review 66, 73-91

Barrera-Osorio, F., & Raju, D. (2017). “Teacher performance pay: Experimental evidence from Pakistan.” Journal of Public Economics, 148, 75-91

Barrera-Osorio, F. & Filmer, D (2016) “Incentivizing schooling for learning: Evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches.” Journal of Human Resources, 51(2), 461-499

Barrera-Osorio, F., & Ganimian, A. J. (2016). “The barking dog that bites: Test score volatility and school rankings in Punjab, Pakistan.” International Journal of Educational Development, 49, 31-54

Barrera-Osorio, F. & Raju, D (2015) “Evaluating the impacts of public student subsidies to low-cost private schools in Pakistan.” Journal of Development Studies, Vol 51-08

Barrera-Osorio, F., Bertrand, M., Linden, L. L., & Perez-Calle, F. (2011). “Improving the design of conditional transfer programs: Evidence from a randomized education experiment in Colombia.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2), 167-95