member of Grupo de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre Conflicto y Paz - JANUS Researcher (member) Grupo de Investigación Facultad de Economía Researcher (member)
selected publications academic article The web of conflict-related interactions in Colombia: exploring causal linkages between ecological and social variables by the qualitative loop analysis 2024-9-9 How peace saves lives: Evidence from Colombia 2024-4-1 Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia's peace agreement 2024-1-1 THE RISE AND PERSISTENCE OF ILLEGAL CROPS: EVIDENCE FROM A NAIVE POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT 2023-3-1 The Human Capital Peace Dividend 2023-1-1 Selective Civilian Targeting: The Unintended Consequences of Partial Peace 2022-7-31 Predicting politicians' misconduct: Evidence from Colombia 2022-11-14 Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities 2021-9-21 The Rise and Persistence of Illegal Crops: Evidence from a Naive Policy Announcement 2021-5-6 Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior 2021-5-1 Selective Civilian Targeting: The Unintended Consequences of Partial Peace 2021-1-1 The human capital peace dividend 2021-1-1 The perils of high-powered incentives: Evidence from Colombia's false positives 2020-8-1 End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia's peace agreement 2020-5-1 End-of-Conflict Deforestation: Evidence from Colombian’s Peace Agreement. 2020-1-1 Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light 2020-1-1 The Real Winner's Curse 2020-1-1 Inequality, crime, and the long run legacy of slavery 2019-3-1 Beyond divide and rule: Weak dictators, natural resources and civil conflict 2018-7-1 The Crime Kuznets Curve 2017-12-1 Does the unemployment benefit institution affect the productivity of workers? Evidence from the field 2017-11-1 The Need for Enemies 2016-6-1 Economic shocks and crime: Evidence from the crash of Ponzi schemes 2016-11-1 True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors: Who Leaves Insurgent Groups and Why 2015-8-21 Vote choice and legacies of violence: Evidence from the 2014 colombian presidential elections 2015-4-1 Can SMS technology improve low take-up of social benefits? 2014-1-1 El lado oscuro de la equidad: Violencia y equidad en el desempeño escolar 2014-1-1 Commodity price shocks and civil conflict: Evidence from Colombia 2013-10-1 Seguridad democrática, presencia de la policía y conflicto en Colombia 2012-6-1 Sovereign risk and armed conflict: An event-study for Colombia 2012-4-1 The persistent Colombian conflict: Subnational analysis of the duration of violence 2012-4-1 Rebellion, Repression and Welfare 2011-10-1 Combatant recruitment and the outcome of war 2011-1-1 Violence and growth in Colombia: A Review of the Quantitative Literature 2011-1-1 The severity of the colombian conflict: Cross-country datasets versus new micro-data 2006-1-1 Estrategia para el fortalecimiento: Instituciones, comunidades y territorio book A modern guide to the economics of crime 2022-10-14 chapter Colombia: Democratic but Violent?. 285-316. 2023-1-1 The changing nature of economics of crime. 1-11. 2022-10-14 Unbundling the relationship between economic shocks and crime. 184-204. 2022-10-14 Pandemic Corruption: Insights from Latin America. 101-109. 2021-1-1 Text messages as social policy instrument: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial with internal refugees in Colombia. 59-75. 2020-2-29 Prisons. 1. 2018-4-12 Crime: Economics of, the Standard Approach. 1-4. 2018-1-1 Strategic Atrocities: Civilians under Crossfire - Theory and Evidence from Colombia. 425-451. 2016-1-1 Hitos del Conflicto y Riesgo País 2014-6-1 Inequidad regional en Colombia. 695-767. 2014-12-9 Costos del Conflicto y Consideraciones Económicas para la Construcción de Paz. 239-272. 2012-1-1 working paper A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement. 1-55. 2021-5-1 Inequality, Crime, and the Long Run: Legacy of Slavery 2017-4-1 The Real Winner´s Curse 2016-5-25 Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Crash of Ponzi Schemes 2016-3-1 Rural Property Tax Revenue in the Face of Economic Concentration and Political Competition: Evidence from Colombia 2016-1-1 El lado oscuro de la equidad: Violencia y equidad en el desempeño escolar 2014-4-1 The crime kuznets curve 2014-4-1 Hitos del conflicto y riesgo país 2014-1-1 The environmental impact of civil conflict: The deforestation effect of paramilitary expansion in Colombia 2014-1-1 Don't make war, make elections franchise extension and violence in XIXTH-Century Colombia 2013-3-1 Can SMS technology improve low take-up of social benefits? 2013-12-1 Does the unemployment benefit institution affect the productivity of workers? evidence from a field experiment 2013-11-1 Sunlight Disinfects? Free Media in Weak Democracies 2013-1-1 The Politics of Resource Booms 2012-1-1 Beyond Divide and Rule: Weak Dictators, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict 2011-8-1 Violence and growth in Colombia: A review of the quantitatice literature 2011-6-1 Seguridad democrática, presencia de la policía y conflicto en Colombia 2011-11-1 Learning How (Not) to Fire a Gun: Combatant Training and Civilian Victimization 2011-1-1 The persistent colombian conflict: subnational analysis of the duration of violence 2011-1-1 Rebellion, Repression and Welfare 2010-4-1 Empowering IDP with SMS: A Randomized controlled trial in Bogotá 2010-1-1 Military empowerment and civilian targeting in civil war 2009-1-1 Combatant recruitment and the outcome of war 2008-9-1 The Work of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch: Evidence from Colombia 2007-1-1 Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil and Armed Conflict in Colombia 2006-1-1 Resource curse in reverse: The coffee crisis and armed conflict in Colombia 2006-1-1 editorial article Conflict, crime, and violence in Colombia 2014-1-1 Colombia: Introduction To A Special Issue Of Defence And Peace Economics 2012-4-1 letter Colombia: Dealing in conservation. 190. 2016-10-14
presentations invited talk Panel Integrado “La nueva cara del narcotráfico en Colombia”, Speaker, Lanzamiento Observatorio Colombiano de Crimen Organizado 2016
principal investigator on State "building at the community level: evaluating the impact of Colombia" consolidation program 2014-01-01 - 2017-11-30 Impact Evaluation of the Mobile Victim Care Unit 2016-03-28 - 2017-04-28 Evaluate state-building efforts and participation in the illicit market at the village level and the fight against insurgency in Colombia's civil conflict. 2016-01-01 - 2017-01-01 Impact Evaluation of the Mobile Victim Care Unit in Colombia (UMAV) 2016-01-01 - 2017-01-01 Observatory for the restitution and regulation of agrarian property rights 2014-03-17 - 2016-09-16 Economic Development and Rural Property 2014-02-01 - 2016-07-31 Democracy and Conflict in Colombia: Is the Democratic Left a Threat to the Armed Left? 2013-02-01 - 2014-07-30 The indirect effect of violence on equity in education 2013-03-08 - 2013-12-15 Empowering Internally Displaced People in Colombia through the use of ICTs 2009-03-11 - 2010-08-31
co-principal investigator on Colombian Cities as Scenarios for Social Inclusion 2018-10-01 - 2022-09-30 missing activity
Tutor of Choques a los precios internacionales de Commodities y decisiones de acumulación de capital humano en Colombia Thesis Choques al hogar, trabajo Infantil y acumulación de capital humano : evidencia para Colombia Thesis Conflict and child labor: evidence from poor households in Colombia Thesis Conflict-induced poverty: Evidence from Colombia Thesis Congress composition and electoral advantage Thesis Corruption, Transparency, and Natural Resources Thesis Crisis diplomática y efectos estructurales en el comercio exterior Colombia - Venezuela, 2005-2014 Thesis De Facto Versus De Jure Power, and Electoral Influence by Non-State Armed Organizations: Evidence from Colombia Thesis Efecto de la estrategia de promoción de exportaciones de Procolombia en el desempeño exportador colombiano Thesis Efecto de la legalización de barrios en los precios del suelo y la construcción en la ciudad informal Thesis Efectos de la política de consolidación y reconstrucción territorial sobre la capacidad del estado colombiano Thesis Efectos del uso del internet sobre el capital social en Colombia : participación política en espacios no electorales Thesis Effects of public policies on informal and formal urban expansion. A comparative impact evaluation between neighborhood legalization and slum upgrading policies in Bogota-Colombia Thesis El Sistema de Protección Social en Colombia y el aporte del Programa Mundial de Alimentos para su mejora: población migrante en situación de vulnerabilidad y su ingreso al sistema Thesis Essays on the political economy of civil wars in developing countries Thesis Family Feuds: The effect of income shocks on domestic violence against women Thesis Foreign perception of sovereign risk : an event study of the colombian armed conflict Thesis Gasto en publicidad y bienestar subjetivo : el caso de la pobreza en Colombia Thesis Getting Access to COVID-19 bailouts: Elite power or systemic importance? Thesis ICBF-impacto de ser atendido en los servicios del PARD sobre la probabilidad de que un adolescente vulnerable ingrese al SRPA Thesis Impacto de la unificación del salario mínimo en Colombia sobre el nivel de empleo en las zonas rurales: un experimento natural Thesis Impacto del Internet en el ingreso laboral : análisis del lugar y manejo del Internet Thesis Injusticia ambiental en Colombia : minería y salud al nacer Thesis Landmines, maternal stress, and neonatal health: evidence from Colombia’s childbirth outcomes Thesis More public goods, more political reciprocity? Evidence from a post-conflict economy Thesis More public goods, more violence? The effect of rural roads on armed conflict and illegal economies in Colombia Thesis My Guys: the Impact of political turnover on municipal public procurement Thesis Seguridad estatal a través de las fuerzas armadas: análisis del impacto de brigadas militares en territorios de conflicto sobre la población civil Thesis The Unexpected Effects of a Merit-Based Scholarship : Evidence from Ser Pilo Paga Thesis The differential effect on dropout of increasing grades' supply by integrating or expanding schools: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Bogotá Thesis The effect of Ponzi schemes on crime : Evidence from the colombian case Thesis The impact of sharing economy on urban crime Thesis Three essays on the economics and strategic interactions of drug trafficking Thesis Violencia, ideología política y defensa de derechos humanos Thesis ¿Cómo impacta un cambio de política comercial el comportamiento electoral? Thesis ¿Politización de la justicia en Colombia? Thesis ¿Puede una política de cuidado contribuir a la autonomía económica de las mujeres? El caso del programa de Cero a Siempre en Colombia Thesis
Educational Training Background 2002, Economista, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá D.C. 2003, Magíster en Economía, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá D.C. 2007, Doctor en Economía, Royal Holloway, University of London