Support to Public Policy Projects:
Between 2020 and 2023, I worked on the following consulting projects:
"Diseño de una Ruta de Formalización Laboral Gradual" (with Alejandro Torres). 2021. In alliance with Proantioquia, Corporación Interactuar, Cámara de Comercio de Medellín para Antioquia, Comfama, Fundación Fondo de Garantías de Antioquia. Available on request.
"Proyecto de Valoración Socioeconómica y Apropiación Social del Conocimiento del Proyecto Campus Manizales" (with Carlos Cadena and Santiago Bohórquez). 2022. Hired by Alcaldía de Manizales.
"Evaluación de Impacto y Creación de Sistema de Monitoreo del Programa Hogares Saludables" (with Juan Carlos Muñoz, Gustavo García and Albert Saiz). 2023. In alliance with Argos and Fundación Argos. AEA RCT Registry https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/11502
Evidence Gap Maps.
In 2024, I began developing Evidence Gap Maps, a tool for systematizing and visualizing relevant, rigorous evidence on specific topics. In 2025, we launched the first two, one of them in collaboration with our colleague from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie):
Acosta, C., Anda, M.D., Borja, L., Córdova-Aráuz, D., Engelbert, M., Porto, I., Rossetti, M., & Shisler, S. (2025). Building Stronger Transport Policy: An Evidence Gap Map [Online map]. https://developmentevidence.3ieimpact.org/egm/transportation-evidence-gap-map
Acosta, C., Britto Lima, S., Kang, M., Porto, I., Serrano Berthet, R., & Villalba, H. (2025). Informing Citizen Security Policy: An Evidence Gap Map on Policing Interventions [Online map]. Inter-American Development Bank. https://developmentevidence.3ieimpact.org/egm/IDB-policing-egm
Other Collaborations:
Between 2022 and 2023, I worked as an External Research Fellow with the Department of the Built Environment (BUILD) at Aalborg University in Copenhagen on Project RESPOND, where we are studying some of the implications that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on households and firms' decisions in Denmark. One of the outputs of this collaboration is:
Resilience Strategies of Danish Firms in the Pandemic and Their Regional Differences (with Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen and Bence Boje-Kovács - BUILD - Aalborg University). 2025 - Global Challenges & Regional Science, 3.
Teaching:
Graduate:
2020-2025 (Invited instructor at EAFIT since 2023)
EC0803: Microeconomía Avanzada
2020-2023
EC0749: Organización Industrial
Topics in Urban Economics
Undergraduate:
2020-2023
EC0103: General Macroeconomics
Syllabi or other materials are available on request.