Academic Publications:

1.       Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility

• • Conditionally accepted at Journal of Historical Political Economy

2.        Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction

2. • Forthcoming at Journal of the European Economic Association [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]     

3.       The Intergenerational Transmission of Higher Education: Evidence from the 1973 Coup in Chile 

3. • Forthcoming at Explorations in Economic History [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]               

4.        Natural Resource Rents, Local Taxes and Government Performance: Evidence from Colombia 

   • Forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]       

   • Selected Media coverage: Not Another Politics Podcast

5.       The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy 

5. • American Journal of Political Science, 2023, Vol. 67 (1), pp 101-118 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]      

6.        A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany 

6. • American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, Vol. 15 (1), pp 68-106 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]       

7.        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] 

   • Selected Media coverage: Washington Post, Quartz, The Economist , The Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal      

8.       How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy

8. • American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, Vol. 14 (1), pp 293-326 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]

   • Media coverage: VoxDev 

9.       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]

10.        Is It My Money or Not? An Experiment on Risk Aversion and the House-Money Effect

1. • Experimental Economics, 2014, Vol. 17 (1), pp 47-60 [publisher] [working paper] [replication files]

Working Papers:

1.       Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia

• • Revision requested at Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Honorable mention at the 2022 ADB-IEA Innovative Policy Research Award
  • Media coverage: VoxDev 

2.       Uncertainty, Peace, and Investment: Evidence from Credit Microdata in Colombia

3.       Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

Pre-PhD Working Papers:

• Diversification, Networks and the Survival of Exporting Firms [PDF] 

• Good Predictions and Bad Policies [PDF] 

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)