Working Papers
Presented: SEA 2021, MEA 2020, EGSO 2020, Bank of Mexico 2020-2022, Cornell-2022, Brookings 2022, Universidad del Rosario-2022, EAFIT 2022, Banco Mundial 2022, Compass Lexecon 2022
Awards: PIV, Bank of Mexico 2020, Georgetown 2021
Political alignment brings disproportional public spending but has unintended consequences for employment growth.
with Kiyomi Cadena, Laura Moreno and Carlos Rodríguez
Placed-based policies aim to spur development in distressed local economies. Local economic growth masks the fact that benefits are concentrated in non-poor residents of poor places
with Umberto Muratori and Pedro Juarros
Awards: Doctoral Grants, Washington Center of Equitable Growth
Public spending has a higher impact on employment and output when it goes to sectors with a higher labor intensity
Publications
Empirical Economics, 2023
With Tobias Puftze and Carlos Rodriguez-Castellan
Review of Development Economics, 2022
With Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Nora Lustig, Carlos Rodriguez-Castellan
Review of World Economics, 2020
With Andres Garcia and Ricardo Arguello
How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in LAC to the value of the poverty line?
Economía, 2018
With Andres Castañeda, Santiago Garriga, Leonardo Luchetti and Leonardo Gasparini
Inequality stagnation in Latin America in the aftermath of the global financial crisis
Review of Development Economics, 2017
With Louise Cord, Liliana Sousa, Leonardo Luchetti, Carlos Rodriguez and Oscar Barriga
Weather shocks and health at birth in Colombia
World Development, 2016
With Mabel Andalon, Joao Pedro Azevedo, Viviane Sanfelice and Carlos Rodriguez
Sectoral and poverty impacts of agricultural policy adjustments in Colombia
Agricultural Economics IAAE, 2015
With Ricardo Argüello