Non-state actors, human capital, and development
Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths Econometrica, 2022. Media: Marginal Revolution, VoxDev, World Bank, Diario Gestion , Econimate, The Economist
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador American Economic Review, 2022. Media: Crisis Group Report, Washington Post , VoxDev
Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments joint with Zach Y. Brown, Eduardo Montero, and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla . Accepted. Review of Economic Studies. Media: ProMarket, The Guardian , El Diario de Hoy, MarketPower
Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development joint with Nikita Melnikov and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla . Revise and Resubmit. Econometrica. Media: Probable Causation, The Economist, Marginal Revolution, Marginal revolution, VoxDev
US Criminal Deportations and Human Capital in Central America American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2019
Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador joint with Antonella Bandiera, Lelys Dinarte, Juan Miguel Jimenez, and Sandra Rozo
Gender-based violence
The Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City joint with Riccardo Ciacci. Economic Journal, 2022. Media: Marginal Revolution
Sexual Harassment and Police Biases in Public Spaces: Experimental Evidence from Urban India joint with Sofia Amaral, Girija Borker, Nathan Fiala, Anjani Kumar, and Nishith Prakash. Revise and Resubmit. Quarterly Journal of Economics
Gender Violence, Enforcement and Human Capital: Evidence from Women Justice Centers in Peru joint with Iva Trako. Accepted. Journal of Development Economics. Media: El Comercio, Ministerio de la Mujer y Poblaciones Vulnerables en Peru , Redesarrollo, Revista G7, Pew
Migration
Is a Refugee Crisis a Housing Crisis? Only if Housing Supply is Unresponsive joint with Sandra Rozo. Journal of Development Economics, 2021.
The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador joint with Antonella Bandiera, Lelys Dinarte, Sandra Rozo , Carlos Schmidt Padilla and Hernan Winkler. Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
Other topics
Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill joint with Lena Edlund and Cecilia Machado. Economica, 2022. Media: The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg View, and The Huffington Post
Auspicious Birth Dates Among Chinese in California joint with Douglas Almond, Christine Pal Chee and Nan Zhong. Economics and Human Biology, 2015.
Work in progress
Addressing Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Violence and Reporting: An Experimental School Intervention in Peru joint with Italo A. Gutierrez, Hugo ̃Nopo, and Oswaldo Molina (draft coming soon)
Should I stay or should I go? The unintended effects of enfranchisement joint with Wilber Baires and Juan Vargas. Media: FocoEconomico
Reducing Gender-Based Violence in Schools in Mozambique joint with Sofia Amaral, Aixa Garcia-Ramos, Selim Gulesci Sarita Ore Quispe and Alejandra Ramos
- As part of a collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Mozambique.
- Status: Collecting Endline.
Long-term Effects of Temporary Labor Demand: Free Trade Zones, Female Education and Marriage Market Outcomes in the Dominican Republic (new draft coming soon)
Gender-based Violence and Police Reform joint with Sofia Amaral, Girija Borker, Nishith Prakash
- As part of a collaboration with the police in Bihar, India.
- Status: Intervention in the field.
Mass Migration and Inequality in Venezuela joint with Nicolás Cabra and Sandra Rozo
A Safe School: Police Patrolling, Gang Recruitment and Criminal Scars in El Salvador joint with Eleno Castro, Felipe Coy and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla