Damian Clarke

Working Papers and Draft Manuscripts

• "The Daughter Penalty", with Sonia Bhalotra and Angelina Nazarova


• "Estimating Inter-generational Returns to Medical Care: New Evidence from At-Risk Newborns", with Nicolás Lillo Bustos and Kathya Tapia Schythe.
• February, 2025.
• Revise & Resubmit The Economic Journal.
• Online Appendix.


• "Cumulative Estimation", with Nicolás Paris Torres and Benjamín Villena-Roldán.
• January, 2025.


• "Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from Constitutional Reform in Brazil" with Rudi Rocha and Michel Szklo
• October, 2024.
• Reject & Resubmit American Economic Review.


• "Wildfires and Human Health: Evidence from 15 Wildfire Seasons in Chile", with Rubí Arrizaga, Pedro Cubillos and J. Cristóbal Ruíz-Tagle


• "Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Voice: Historical Evidence from the U.S.", with Sonia Bhalotra, Joseph Gomes and Atheen Venkataramani


• "Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy", with Sonia Bhalotra, Hanna Mühlrad and Mårten Palme


• "US Presidential Party Switches Are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality", with Sonia Bhalotra, Hanna Mühlrad and Manuel Fernández Sierra


• "Estimating Difference-in-Differences in the Presence of Spillovers"

Published and Accepted Papers

• "Schools as Safety Nets: Break-downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence Against Children", with Pilar Larroulet, Daniel Pailañir and Daniela Quintana.
• Journal of Human Resources (Accepted).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.


• "Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile", with Sonia Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Pilar Larroulet and Francisco Pino.
• The Review of Economics and Statistics (Forthcoming).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Journal Link.


• "On Synthetic Difference-in-Differences and Related Estimation Methods in Stata", with Daniel Pailañir, Susan Athey and Guido Imbens.
• Stata Journal 24(4):557-598 (2024).
• Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Open Access Link.


• "Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Power", with Sonia Bhalotra, Joseph Gomes and Atheen Venkataramani.
• Journal of the European Economic Association 21(5):2172-2208 (2023).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Open Access Link.
• Teaching Materials.


• "The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History", with Manuel Llorca Jaña and Daniel Pailañir.
• Historical Methods 56(2):115-132 (2023).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Open Access Link.


• "Implementing the Panel Event Study", with Kathya Tapia Schythe.
• Stata Journal 21(4):853–884 (2021).
• Replication Materials.


• "Access to the Emergency Contraceptive Pill and Women's Reproductive Health: Evidence from Public Reform in Chile", with Viviana Salinas.
• Demography 58(6):2291–2314 (2021).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Short video (in Spanish).
• Open Access Link.


• "Abortion Laws and Women's Health", with Hanna Mühlrad.
• Journal of Health Economics 76(C):102413 (2021).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Corrigendum for footnote 5.
• Open Access Link.


• "On the Value of Birth Weight", with Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque.
• Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 83(5):1130-1159 (2021).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Open Access Link.


• "The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment", with Sonia Bhalotra.
• Journal of the European Economic Association 18(6):3090-3139 (2020).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Open Access Link.


• "The Romano-Wolf Multiple Hypothesis Correction in Stata", with Joseph P. Romano and Michael Wolf.
• Stata Journal 13(4):812-843 (2020).
• Code and Data.


• "Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in a Prenatal Health Program", with Gustavo Cortés and Diego Vergara.
• Journal of Population Economics 33(3):883-956 (2020).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.


• "Twin Birth and Maternal Condition", with Sonia Bhalotra.
• The Review of Economics and Statistics 101(5):853-864 (2019).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Online Appendix.
• Open Access Link.


• "The Demand for Season of Birth", with Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque.
• Journal of Applied Econometrics 34(5):707-723 (2019).
• Data and Replication Materials.
• Open Access Link.


• "A Convenient Omitted Variable Bias Formula for Treatment Effect Models".
• Economics Letters 174:84-88 (2019).
• Online Appendix.


• Practical Considerations for Questionable IVs", with Benjamín Matta.
• Stata Journal 18(3):663-691 (2018).
• Data and Replication Materials.


• "Children and Their Parents: A Review of Fertility and Causality".
• Journal of Economic Surveys 32(2): 518-540 (2018).
• Replication Materials.


• "Assessing Plan B: The Effect of the Morning After Pill on Children and Women", with Andrea Bentancor.
• The Economic Journal 127(607): 2525-2552 (2017).
• Data and Replication Materials.


• "General to Specific Modelling in Stata".
• Stata Journal 14(4):895-908 (2014).
• Data and Replication Materials.


• "1,2-Borotropic shifts and B--N bond cleavage reactions in molybdenum hydrotris(3-isopropylpyrazolyl)borate chemistry: Mixed-valence Mo^VIMo^V₂ and pyrazole-rich oxo-Mo^IV complexes" with J White, V Ng, P Smith, M Taylor and C Young.
• Inorganica Chimica Acta, 362(12):4570-4577 (2009).

Book

• "Microeconometrics and MATLAB: An Introduction", with Abi Adams and Simon Quinn.
• Oxford University Press (2016)
• Table of Contents

Handbook Chapters

• "The Economics of Abortion Policy"
• The Oxford Research Encyclopedia (2024)
• Publisher Link.
• Podcast episode on abortion reform.


• "Women's Careers and Family Formation", with Sonia Bhalotra and Selma Walther.
• Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (2023)
• Publisher Link.

• "Analysis of Twins", with Sonia Bhalotra.
• Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (2023)
• Publisher Link.

Papers in Special Issues

• "Education Expansion as a Policy Tool for Reductions in Infant and Maternal Mortality", with Sonia Bhalotra
• Asian Development Review (2025)
• Short Video (UNU-WIDER)


• "Understanding the National Implementation of a Legalized Abortion Policy: Evidence from Decriminalization in Chile", with Cecilia Correa-Meneghello, Viviana Salinas and Alejandra Ramm
• Revise & Resubmit Canadian Studies in Population (Special Issue on Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas)

Policy Reports

• "Education and Maternal Mortality", with Sonia Bhalotra. Background Paper for EFA Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO 2013/14.
• "The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Female Empowerment", with Hanna Mühlrad. Policy Brief for The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA), Sweden, 2018.
• "Creciendo Juntos: Evaluando la Equidad y Eficiencia de Chile Crece Contigo.", with Gustavo Cortés Méndez and Diego Vergara Sepúlveda. Support Material, Chile Crece Contigo Program, Ministry of Social Development, Chile (in Spanish), 2019.
• "Programas de Salud Pública y Salud Mental de los Jóvenes en Chile: Evidencia de los Espacios Amigables", with Carlos Espinosa de la Rivera and Ignacio García Fernández, Chapter, "Chile, Out of the Box", IADB & Universidad de Chile (in Spanish), 2021.

Computational Routines

• CCV (with Daniel Pailañir): Stata module to implement the causal cluster variance estimator
• TSCB (with Daniel Pailañir): Stata module to implement the two-stage cluster bootstrap estimator
• SDID (with Daniel Pailañir): Stata module to perform synthetic difference-in-differences estimation, inference, and visualization
• EVENTDD (with Kathya Tapia Schythe): Stata module to estimate panel event study models and generate event study plots
• IMPERFECTIV: (with Benjamín Matta) Stata module to estimate bounds with "Imperfect Instrumental Variables" (Nevo and Rosen, 2012)
• RWOLF: Stata module to calculate Romano-Wolf stepdown p-values for multiple hypothesis testing BUG FIX in the current version of the code. For details please see here
• ARROWPLOT: Stata module to produce combined plot for graphing inter-group and intra-group trends
• PLAUSEXOG: Stata implementation of Conley et al's plausibly exogenous bounds
• GENSPEC: A general-to-specific modelling algorithm for Stata
• ERATE: (with Pavel Luengas Sierra) Stata module to import up-to-date exchange rates for any currency pairs
• MERGEMANY: Stata module to merge many files
• WORLDSTAT: A visualisation of the state of world development