Research
Working Papers
- The Spillover Effects of Prisoner Releases: Evidence from Ecuador.
- Awarded second place in the 2025 IDB Young Economist Competition.
- Climate Shocks and Female Targeted Political Violence. (with Siwan Anderson)
- Gangs and Firms: Evidence from a Peace Agreement. (with Phillip Keefer)
Work in Progress
- Religious Violence in Africa (with Siwan Anderson and Sara Benetti)
- Long-Term Effects of Missionary Activity on Conflict (with Siwan Anderson)
- The Role of Neighborhoods and Prisons in Building Criminal Networks
- Reducing Sentence Disparities by Ingroup Contact
Book Chapters
- Abuso de Poder de Mercado en Situación de Dependencia Económica. (2016). 1st. Ed., Quito, Ecuador: SCPM. (with Vicente Abril; Eduardo Esparza; and Ricardo Freire).
Pre-doctoral work (in Spanish)
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POBREZAECU: A Stata module to forecast poverty in Ecuador (2018). Statistical Software Components. Boston College Department of Economics. [Repec Link]
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El Efecto de la Gran Recesion sobre la Oferta Laboral en Ecuador (2017). Atlantic Review of Economics, Colexio de Economistas de Coruña, Spain and Fundación Una Galicia Moderna, vol. 1, pages 1-1, June. (with Nicolas Acosta and Ramiro Mejia) [Paper]
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Dependencia económica: el caso ecuatoriano (2016). Economía y Política. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Cuenca., Vol. 24, pages 34-63. (with Nicolas Acosta and Ramiro Mejia) [Paper]