Research
Working Papers
"Spatial Misallocation, Informality and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City" June 2024 [PDF]
Revised and Resubmitted to the American Economic Review
Urban Economics Association 2020 Student Prize (Honorable Mention)
"Lakes and Economic Development: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad" [PDF] December 2023 (with Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelan)
Reject and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
"Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions" [PDF] October 2024 (with Mauricio Ulate and Jose P. Vásquez)
Resubmitted to the Journal of Monetary Economics
"Complements or Substitutes: Labor Market Effects of Foreign Inputs in Developing Economies" [PDF] November 2024 (with Leonardo Bonilla and Juan Munoz-Morales)
In preparation for the Journal of International Economics special issue on Trade and Uneven Economic Development
"Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An Empirical Analysis using Firm-level Production Data" June 2018 [PDF] [Slides] (with Darío Tortarolo) (New version coming soon)
Selected Work in Progress
"Understanding Low Productivity in Developing Countries: Evidence from the Airline Industry" (with David Atkin, and Amit Khandelwal)
"Urban Transit Infrastructure Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Power" (with Jorge Pérez-Pérez, and Felipe Vial) [Slides]
"The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions" (with Isabela Manelici, Mauricio Ulate, and José P. Vásquez)
Other Writing
"VoxDevLit: Land Transport Infrastructure" (with Marco González-Navarro, Remi Jedwab, and Nick Tsivanidis) [PDF]
"Condiciones de pobreza y el acceso a programas sociales de los hogares colombianos" (with Adriana Camacho), Chap 4. Colombia en Movimiento 2010-2013. Editorial UniAndes [PDF]