Luis R. Martínez
Associate Professor of Political Science and Data and Decision Sciences
Emory University
Contact Information:
Department of Political Science
Emory University
327 Tarbutton Hall
1555 Dickey Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Peer-reviewed Articles:
Peer-reviewed Articles:
Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2026, Vol. 24 (3), pp 1104-1149 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
Natural Resource Rents, Local Taxes and Government Performance: Evidence from Colombia
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, Vol. 107 (5), pp 1460-1469 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility
Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2025, Vol. 4 (4), pp 509-545 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, Vol. 22 (4), pp 1762-1797 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
The Intergenerational Transmission of Higher Education: Evidence from the 1973 Coup in Chile
Explorations in Economic History, 2023, Vol. 90: 101540 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, 2023, Vol. 67 (1), pp 101-118 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, Vol. 15 (1), pp 68-106 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
How Much Should We Trust the Dictator's GDP Growth Estimates?
Journal of Political Economy, 2022, Vol. 130 (10), pp 2731-2769 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, Vol. 14 (1), pp 293-326 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
Transnational Insurgents: Evidence from Colombia's FARC at the border with Chávez's Venezuela
Journal of Development Economics, 2017, Vol. 126, pp 138-153 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
Is It My Money or Not? An Experiment on Risk Aversion and the House-Money Effect
Experimental Economics, 2014, Vol. 17 (1), pp 47-60 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]
Book Chapters:
Book Chapters:
The Contraction of Higher Education in the Early Years of the Pinochet Regime
in The Pinochet Shock: Radical Economic Change and Life Under Dictatorship in Chile (eds. Felipe González and Mounu Prem) Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 [publisher] [preprint]
Working Papers:
Working Papers:
with Giorgio Chiovelli, Leopoldo Fergusson, Juan David Torres and Felipe Valencia-Caicedo (Updated: June 2026)
- Revision requested at Journal of Political Economy (2nd round)
with Philipp Denter, Nicolas Motz, Carlos Sanz (NEW SEPTEMBER 2026)
with Nicolás de Roux, Camilo Tovar and Jorge Tovar
with Nicolás de Roux
Work in Progress:
Work in Progress:
Gender Differences in Political Behavior: Evidence from Administrative Data
The Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchies
Displacing the Political Fiscal Cycle: Blessing or Curse?
Dormant Working Papers:
Dormant Working Papers:
Diversification, Networks and the Survival of Exporting Firms [PDF]
Good Predictions and Bad Policies [PDF]
Current Teaching:
Current Teaching:
POLS 111: Principles of Political Science (UG) [Syllabus]
POLS 585: State Capacity (PhD) [Syllabus]
Media:
Media:
The Pie [podcast]: "From Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Political Economy of Latin America" (2024)
Voice of America (China): "Shandong Automaker Accused County Head of Falsifying Economic Data" (2023)
Ceteris Paribus [podcast]: "Luis Martinez: El PIB de las dictaduras, la paz en Colombia y la independencia" (2022)
Clarín (Argentina): "Joe Biden recibe a Guillermo Lasso en un fuerte gesto de apoyo a Ecuador ante las turbulencias en la región" (2022)
The Course [podcast]: "Luis Martinez: I am not the conventional economist" (2022)
L'Opinion (France): "Election présidentielle: la Colombie entre dans l’inconnu" (2022)
CNN en Español [Globoeconomía con José Antonio Montenegro, TV]: "Luis Martínez" [Part 2] [Part 3] (2021)
El Espectador (Colombia): "¿Joe Biden reconocerá a Juan Guaidó como presidente encargado?" (2021)
University of Chicago: Guest Lecturer at Faculty Fellows Discussion at International House (2019)
Pell Center [Story in the Public Square, TV]: "Luis Martinez" (2018)
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