Welcome to my website. I am an associate professor at the department of political science at Emory University. My main research areas of interest are political economy, economic development, and public finance, with a regional focus on Latin America. I have a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. Before coming to Emory, I was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Email: luismartinez@emory.edu
Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia
Conditionally accepted at Journal of the European Economic Association [working paper]
Natural Resource Rents, Local Taxes and Government Performance: Evidence from Colombia
Forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics [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]
Gender Differences in Political Behavior: Evidence from Administrative Data
The Long-run Impact of the MP Expenses Scandal in the UK
The Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchies
Displacing the Political Fiscal Cycle: Blessing or Curse?
Diversification, Networks and the Survival of Exporting Firms [PDF]
Good Predictions and Bad Policies [PDF]
Uncertainty, Peace, and Investment: Evidence from Credit Microdata in Colombia [PDF]
POLS 111: Principles of Political Science (UG)
POLS 585: State Capacity (PhD)
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)