PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Adaptation to the Spillover Economic Effects of Foreign Conflict Shocks: Evidence from Boko Haram " (w. B. Blankespoor, R. Jedwab and T. Masaki), 2025. World Development (forthcoming).
“The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria” (with K. Bahia, P. Castells, G. Cruz, T. Masaki, X. Pedros, T. Pfutze and H. Winkler), 2024. Journal of Development Economics, vol. 170 . Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9230. Also available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 13219.
“Exports and Income Inequality in Mexico” (with E. Vázquez and H. Winkler), 2024. Journal of Development Studies, vol. 60(7): 1131-1159. Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9459. Also available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 13610.
“Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania” (with K. Bahia, P. Castells, G. Cruz, T. Masaki and V. Sanfelice), 2023. World Bank Economic Review, vol. 37(2). Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9749. Washington D.C. Also available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 14720.
“Market Concentration, Trade Exposure, and Firm Productivity in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexico” (with L.F. López-Calva and O. Barriga-Cabanillas), 2023. World Development, vol. 165. Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9210. Washington D.C. Also available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 13147.
“Urban Transport Infrastructure and Household Welfare: Evidence from Colombia” (with T. Pfutze and D. Valderrama), 2023. Empirical Economics, vol. 65: 1409-1432. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8341, Washington D.C.
“Wage Inequality in the Developing World: Evidence from Latin America” (with with L. F. López-Calva, N. Lustig and D. Valderrama), 2022. Review of Development Economics, vol. 26(4). Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7795, Washington D.C. Also available as Working Papers 1608, Tulane University, Department of Economics.
“Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa” (with G. Granguillhome, S. Lach and T. Masaki), 2021. Technology in Society, vol. 68. Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9560. Washington D.C. Also available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 14151. Also available as a Background Paper of the World Development Report 2021. “Data for Better Lives.” Online Appendix.
“Within-country poverty convergence: Evidence from Mexico” (with L.F. López-Calva and E. Ortiz-Juárez), 2021. Empirical Economics, vol. 62, 2547-2586. Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9038, Washington D.C., and as IZA Discussion Paper No. 13577.
“Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunications Sector in Ethiopia" (with A. Abdelkrim, G. Granguillhome and E. Malásquez), 2021. Telecommunications Policy, vol. 46(2). Also available as World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 9516 Washington D.C., and as IZA Discussion Paper No. 14043.
“Can a Small Social Pension Promote Labor Force Participation? Evidence from the Colombia Mayor Program” (with T. Pfutze), 2019. Economia, vol. 20(1): 111-154. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7516, Washington D.C.
“Moving to Safety and Staying in School: The Effects of Violence on Enrollment Decisions in Mexico” (with F. Márquez-Padilla and F. Pérez-Arce), 2019. Review of Development Economics vol. 23(4): 1624-1658. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7230, Washington D.C., and RAND Corporation Working Paper WP-1082.
“Social Pension Income Associated with Small Improvements in Self-Reported Health of Poor Older Men in Colombia” (with M. Avendano, P. Hessel and T. Pfutze), 2018. Health Affairs, vol. 37(3): 456-463.
“Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America” (with P. Brummund and C. Mann), 2018. Review of Development Economics, vol. 22(4): 1682-1708. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7927, Washington D.C.
“Living on the Edge: Vulnerability to Poverty and Public Transfers in Mexico” (with A. de la Fuente, A. and E. Ortiz-Juárez), 2017. Oxford Development Studies, vol. 46(1): 10-27. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7165, Washington D.C. Also available as a Background Paper of the World Development Report 2014. “Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development.”
“Inequality Stagnation in Latin America in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis” (with L. Cord, O. Barriga-Cabanillas, L. Lucchetti, L. D. Sousa, and D. Valderrama), 2017. Review of Development Economics, vol. 21(1): 157-181. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7146, Washington D.C.
“Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia” (with M. Andalón, J. P. Azevedo, V. Sanfelice and D. Valderrama), 2016. World Development, vol. 82: 69-82. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7081, Washington D.C.
“Income Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War” (with T. Enamorado, L-F Lopez-Calva and H. Winkler), 2016. Journal of Development Economics, vol. 120: 128-143. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6935, Washington D.C. Also available as Households in Conflict Network Working Paper No. 196, the University of Sussex - Falmer - Brighton.
“Is Uruguay more Resilient this Time? Distributional Impacts of a Crisis Similar to the 2001/02 Argentine Crisis” (with O. Barriga-Cabanillas, M. A. Lugo, H. Nielsen and M. P. Zanetti), 2015. Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, vol. 2(4): 64-90. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6849, Washington D.C.
“Crime and Growth Convergence: Evidence from Mexico” (with T. Enamorado and L-F Lopez-Calva), 2014. Economics Letters, vol. 125(1): 9-13. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6730, Washington D.C.
PERMANENT WORKING PAPERS
“Conditionality as Targeting? Participation and Distributional Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers,” 2017. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7940, Washington D.C.
“Pro-Growth Equity: A Policy Framework for the Twin Goals” (with L. F. López-Calva), 2016. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7897, Washington D.C.
“Crime and Persistent Punishment: A Long-Run Perspective on the Links between Violence and Chronic Poverty in Mexico” (with A. Martínez-Cruz), 2016. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7706, Washington D.C.
“Unpacking the MPI: A Decomposition Approach of Changes in Multidimensional Poverty Headcounts” (with J. E. Pérez, J. D. Trujillo and D. Valderrama), 2015. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7514, Washington D.C.
“The Poverty Effects of Market Concentration,” 2015. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7515, Washington D.C.