Peru

Real-time monitoring system for Peru’s economic indicators including GDP, inflation, poverty, and political risk using state-of-the-art econometric methods and daily data scraping.

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.

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.

170 views, 29 downloads. Shows how import liberalization reduced food prices and caloric poverty in Peru.

Explores the relationship between nighttime light intensity and violence patterns globally, with focus on intentional homicide rates and deaths in armed conflicts.

Examines how minimum wage policy affects ethnic income gaps in Peru.

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

811 views, 153 downloads. High-impact paper on minimum wage effects on domestic violence in Peru.

Elaborates a new measure of monetary policy shock and examines heterogeneous effects across industries using firm profitability and Local Projections methodology.

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.