Dany Jaimovich

Publications in Peer-reviewed Academic Journals

1.  Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict.  Journal of Peace Research, Volume 59 Issue 6, November 2022, Pages 903–912 . Joint with Pedro Cayul, Alejandro Corvalan and Matteo Pazzona .  LSE Blog post. 

2. Ethnic Diversity and Forest Commons. World Development, Volume 158, October 2022, 105986. Joint with Francisco Barba.  

3. Environmental Effects of Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from West African Dryland Forests.  Journal of Development Economics, Volume 153, November 2021, 102737. Joint with Simon Heß and Matthias Schündeln. 

4.  Development Projects and Economic Networks: Lessons From Rural Gambia. The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 88, Issue 3, May 2021, Pages 1347–1384 . Joint with Simon Heß and Matthias Schündeln. 

5.  Does ethnic diversity decrease economic interactions? Evidence from exchange networks in rural Gambia.  Economics of Transition and Institutional Change , Volume 27, 2019, Pages 327–353. Joint with Jean-Louis Arcand.

6.  Forced displacement and behavioral change: An empirical study of returnee households in the Nuba Mountains. Defence and Peace Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2018, Pages 190-220.  Joint with Asha Abdel Rahim and Aleksi Ylönen. VoxEU article. Also available as Households in Conflict Network Working Paper 157.

7.  A new player in the international development community? Chile as an emerging donor. Development Policy Review, Volume 35, Issue 6, November 2017, Pages 839-858. Joint with Alexis Gutierrez. VoxLACEA article. 

8.  Missing links, missing markets: Evidence of the transformation process in the economic networks of Gambian villages. World Development, Volume 66,  February 2015, Pages 645–664. Reviews of the paper: M. Bellemare, Dev. Therapy.

9.  Multilateral determinants of regionalism revisited. The Review of International Organizations, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 163-203. Joint with Katerina Gradeva. The data used in the paper can be found in the online supplementary material.

10.  Are Free Trade Agreements contagious? Journal of International Economics, Volume 88, Issue 1, September 2012, Pages 1–16 (lead article). Joint with Richard Baldwin. Also available as NBER Working Paper No.16084. VoxEU Article. 

11.  A Bayesian spatial probit estimation of Free Trade Agreement contagion.  Applied Economics Letters, Volume 19, Number 6, 2012, Pages 579–583.

12.  Public debt around the world: A new data set of central government debt. Applied Economics Letters, Volume 17, Number 1, 2010, Pages 19-24. Joint with Ugo Panizza. Data.

13.  The unexplained part of public debt. Emerging Markets Review, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2006, pages 228-243. Joint with Camila Campos and Ugo Panizza. VoxEU Article.

Work in Progress 

The grievances of a failed reform: Chilean land reform and conflict with indigenous communities. Joint with Felipe Toledo-Concha (r&r at The Economic Journal). 

The persistent effects of community fractionalization: Evidence from indigenous reservations. Joint with A. Corvalán and F. Jordán. 

Environmental and economic impacts of indigenous land restitution in Chile. Joint with F. Jordán, R. Heilmayr, and M. Black. 

The impacts of restrictions to individual rights on Indigenous lands. Joint with F. Jordán and R. Heilmayr.

The economic impact of new regions: Evidence from Chile. Joint with Roberto Herrera. 

Policy Papers and book chapters

Indigenous property and economic development under Pinochet Dictatorship. Joint with Felipe Jordán. In book: The Pinochet Shock: Radical Change and Life Under Dictatorship (2025), Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Conflictos sociales y ambientales en Chile .  IBEROAMERICANA, Volume 18, Issue 67, January 2018, pages 205-230.   Joint with Belén González, Jorge Calbucura, Nicolas del Valle Orellana and Claudia Maldonado Graus.  

Three decades of trade policy in Uganda: two generations of reforms in the quest to become part of the global market. FREIT Working Paper 437 (2012). Joint with Dick Kamuganga.

The Gambia Community Driven Development Program Baseline: Rural Household Survey, Qualitative Survey, Village Network Survey. March 2010 (final report, various authors).

La industria de la biotecnología silvoagropecuaria: Una oportunidad para el desarrollo del sector en Chile. (In Spanish, with Juan Carlos Vera). Foundation for the Agricultural Innovation (FIA) and BioEnlaces, 2004.

Permanent Working Papers

Trade at the Extensive Margin and Civil Wars in Africa. Joint with Dick Kamuganga. Presented at CSAE conference 2012. 

Macrostructure and microstructure: Evidence from overlapping village networks in The Gambia.  MPRA Paper No. 38932, May 2011. 

Who Is Claiming For Fixed-Term Contracts? Joint with Carmen Pages-Serra. HEID Working Paper No: 07/2009, September  2009.

Procyclicality or reverse causality? Joint with Ugo Panizza. IADB-RES Working Paper No.599 (2007). 

History of Economic Thought in Chile

Pensamiento económico en Chile colonial (1540s-1810s)  Joint with José Edwards. In book: Historia Económica Colonial de Chile (2023). Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

¿Por qué la justa apreciación del trabajo es la verdadera democracia? Introduction and biographical note (In Spanish) for the first re-edition of “El porvenir del hombre” by Pedro Félix Vicuña (originally published in 1858). Biblioteca Fundamentos de la Construcción de Chile, 2010.

Proteccionismo versus librecambio: Discusión pública en los albores del Chile independiente.  Revised version: January, 2024.

Cosechando antes de la siembra: Fisonomía del pensamiento económico en los primeros años del Chile independiente. (In Spanish) Joint with Andrea Flores. May, 2002.