Research

Journal Articles

Year Publication Details
2024 Social distancing and COVID-19 under violence: Evidence from Colombia”. Journal of Development Economics. (With Diego Martin) Online Appendix
2023 Short- and long-run labor market adjustment to import competition”. Review of International Economics. (With Juan Blyde, Matias Busso and Kyunglin Park)
2022 Selective Civilian Targeting: The Unintended Consequences of Partial Peace”. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. (With Mounu Prem, Andres Rivera and Juan Vargas)
2020 The perils of top-down state building: Evidence from Colombia’s False Positives”. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 16(3), pp. 43-46. (With Daron Acemoglu, Leopoldo Fergusson, James Robinson and Juan Vargas)
2017 Improving access to preventive maternal health care using reminders: Experimental evidence from Guatemala”, Economic Letters, vol. 161, pp. 43-46. (With Matias Busso and Dario Salcedo)
2017 The effects of financial aid and returns information in selective and less selective schools: Experimental evidence from Chile”. Labour Economics, Vol. 45, pp. 79-91. (With Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martínez)
2017 Books or laptops? The effect of shifting from printed to digital delivery of educational content on learning”. Economics of Education Review, vol. 61, pp. 162-173. (With Rosangela Bando, Francisco Gallego and Paul J. Gertler)
2014 Insecurity or Perception of Insecurity? Urban Crime and Dissatisfaction with Life: Evidence from the Case of Bogotá” . Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, Vol. 20(1), pp. 169-208.

Working Papers

Year Publication Details
  Something Biased This Way Comes: The Effect of Media on House Elections in the US” (With Haaris Mateen)
  Downwind of the Bus Lane: Transit Pollution and Academic Performance” (With Diego Martin and Dario Salcedo)
  Banking Local: Media Slant, Erosion of Trust, and Financial Decisions” (With Elizabeth Berger and Haaris Mateen)
  The (unintended?) effects of US military training during the Cold War in Latin America” (With Diego Martin)
  An Empire Lost: Spanish Industry and The Effect of Colonial Markets and Trade on Innovation
  The Environmental Impact of Civil Conflict: The Deforestation Effect of Paramilitary Expansion in Colombia” (With Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Vargas)

Work in Progress

Year Details
  Mass Deportations, Economic Networks and Firm Productivity in Guatemala (With Carlos Schmidt-Padilla)

Book Chapters

Year Details
2015 “Facts and Determinants of Female Labor Supply in Latin America”, (with Matias Busso). In Bridging gender gaps? The rise and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America, Leonardo Gasparini and Mariana Marchioni (Eds).