Development

Trade liberalization significantly increases innovation outcomes in developing countries, with effects persisting for up to 30 years.

Opportunity costs reduce state-based conflict while rapacity increases non-state conflict. Boom-period growth reduced insurgencies by 2.65pp but intensified territorial competition by 0.49pp.

Import liberalization has larger poverty-reducing effects than export expansion through lower consumer prices.

Spatial sorting explains 100% of conflict migrants’ economic advantages. Dual selection: wealth determines who stays, education determines who succeeds among migrants.

Studies how exposure to terrorism during Peru’s internal war (1980-2000) affected long-term regional economic development.

347 views, 45 downloads. Analyzes returns to cooperation across Latin American firms.

Estimates the effects of mining activity on violence against women in Peru, examining both direct and indirect channels through labor markets and social norms.

Published in Mineral Economics - examines effects of mining presence on inequality, labor income, and poverty in Peru.

Examines Peru’s ethnic income gaps during sustained economic growth period.