Benjamin Villena-Roldan

Universidad Andres Bello

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“  My work primarily delves into labor markets from both empirical and theoretical standpoints, as well as political economy. My research agenda aims to re-examine enduring questions in macro and labor economics while also tackling new ones that arise from recent evidence on employer and worker search processes. To do this, I combine theoretical models with data drawn from online job boards, administrative records, and surveys. I have also done applied research to significant policy discussions, including the reduction of standard weekly work hours, the labor skill certification system, labor training policy, and the use of Large Language Models to online job board data for assessing labor market occupations.  ”

Scholarly Papers (12)

1.

Causal Effects of Maternal Time-Investment on Children's Cognitive Outcomes

Center for Applied Economics, Working Paper 285
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Apr 2013
Benjamin Villena-Roldan and Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
Universidad Andres Bello and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
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children outcomes, maternal time-investment, time allocation, causal effect, instrumental variables

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Deconstructing Job Search Behavior

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Feb 2019
Stefano Banfi, Sekyu Choi and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Chilean Ministry of Energy, Autonomous University of Barcelona - Department of Economics and Universidad Andres Bello
Downloads 267 (247,820)
Citation 2

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Online Job Search, Applications, Search Frictions, Unemployment, On-The-Job Search, Networks

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Do High-Wage Jobs Attract more Applicants? Directed Search Evidence from the Online Labor Market

Journal of Labor Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 04 Feb 2019
Stefano Banfi and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Chilean Ministry of Energy and Universidad Andres Bello
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directed search, job search, online search, wage posting, efficiency

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Aggregate Implications of Employer Search and Recruiting Selection

University of Chile Center for Applied Economics Working Paper No. 271
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 Apr 2013
Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Universidad Andres Bello
Downloads 145 (435,125)
Citation 9

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Employer search, Nonsequential search, Recruiting selection, Hazard rate heterogeneity, Inequality, Search externalities

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Cumulative Estimation

Number of pages: 1 Posted: 08 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2025
Damian Clarke, Nicolás Torres and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
University of Oxford - Department of Economics, University of Chile and Universidad Andres Bello
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Big data, estimation, regression, matrix inversion

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A Spatial Model of Voting with Endogenous Proposals: Theory and Evidence from the Chilean Senate

Center for Applied Economics Working Paper 294
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Apr 2013
Matteo Triossi, Patricio Valdivieso and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Institute of Political Science and Universidad Andres Bello
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Unemployment, Participation and Worker Flows Over the Life-Cycle

Barcelona GSE, Working Paper 617
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Sekyu Choi, Alexandre Janiak and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Autonomous University of Barcelona - Department of Economics, University of Chile and Universidad Andres Bello
Downloads 67 (734,180)
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Life-cycle, Unemployment, Participation, Worker flows

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Participation in Organizations, Trust, and Social Capital Formation: Evidence from Chile

University of Chile Center for Applied Economics Working Paper No. 293
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Apr 2013
Patricio Valdivieso and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Institute of Political Science and Universidad Andres Bello
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Social Capital, Trust, Participation, Institutions, IV Ordered Probit

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Sorting On-Line and On-Time

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Feb 2019
Stefano Banfi, Sekyu Choi and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Chilean Ministry of Energy, Autonomous University of Barcelona - Department of Economics and Universidad Andres Bello
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Citation 9

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online search, assortative matching, labor markets

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Deconstructing Job Search Behavior1

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Dec 2023
Sekyu Choi, Benjamin Villena-Roldan and Stefano Banfi
University of Bristol, Universidad Andres Bello and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 26 (1,087,473)
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Online job search, Applications, Unemployment, On-the-job search, Networks

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Wage Dispersion and Recruiting Selection

Center for Applied Economics, Working Paper 270
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Universidad Andres Bello
Downloads 24 (1,111,716)
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Wage Dispersion, Recruiting Selection, Nonsequential Search

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Opening the Black Box of Social Capital Formation

American Political Science Review, 108, pp 121-143, February 2014
Posted: 08 Aug 2015
Patricio Valdivieso and Benjamin Villena-Roldan
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Institute of Political Science and Universidad Andres Bello

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Social Capital, Participation, Trust, Ordered Probit, Instrumental Variables