research
published and accepted work
Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020 (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, and Santiago Pérez). American Economic Review: Insights Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2024 [AEA Link]
Urban Wage Gaps in Colombia and the Impact of a National Payroll Tax Policy (with Paula Herrera-Idárraga and Pablo Adrián Garlati). 2021. Regional Studies, 1-15.
working papers
Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire (with Giorgio Chiovelli, Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis Martinez, and Felipe Valencia). (Updated March 2024).
Shaping Inequality? Property Rights, Landed Elites and Public Lands in Colombia. (October 2022). Documento Cede 2022-40. Universidad de los Andes.
work in progress
The Non-Productive Use of Land as a Source of Misallocation
Almanac-Making and the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
chapters in books
Cambio Estructural y Dinámica Macroeconómica: Los Retos Colombianos (with José Antonio Ocampo). (2022). In Jose Antonio Ocampo and Maria Fernanda Valdez (Eds.), Políticas de desarrollo productivo: una agenda para el futuro (pp. 31-62). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
El Papel de la Banca de Desarrollo en la Promoción de la Innovación (with José Antonio Ocampo). (2022). In Jose Antonio Ocampo and Maria Fernanda Valdez (Eds.), Políticas de desarrollo productivo: una agenda para el futuro (pp. 223-266). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
policy papers
La Banca de Desarrollo en Colombia (with José Antonio Ocampo and Paola Arias). 2018. Ensayos Sobre Política Económica, 88, 1-36.
Manejo y Resultados de la Bonanza Petrolera (with José Antonio Ocampo). (2018). Revista Economía Colombiana. Edición 353, Agosto-Septiembre de 2018, pp. 80-108.
old working papers
Putting the Eggs in Multiple Baskets: Export Promotion in Colombia During the 1960s (2018).