Giorgio Chiovelli
Giorgio Chiovelli
Professor of Economics, Universidad de Montevideo
Department of Economics and Business
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e-mail gchiovelli@um.edu.uy
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About me
I study the political economy of development in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on how conflict, displacement, globalization, and historical legacies shape the development process; in my research and policy work, I collaborate with governments, international organizations, and NGOs, combining administrative microdata with geospatial, archival, and satellite-based evidence.
Research Statement
Francesco Amodio, Serafin Frache, and I lead the MONT^2 Econ Lab, a joint research, policy, and training initiative of McGill University and the Universidad de Montevideo.
With Sebastian Hohmann and Tanner Regan, I teach an open-access GIS Methods in Research course hosted by the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. The 2025 course syllabus can be found here.
In 2020-2021, with Leopoldo Fergusson, I organized the Virtual Latin American Network in Economic HistOry and Political Economy, LANE HOPE.
IAE Featured Economist, July 2024.
Research Statement
Francesco Amodio, Serafin Frache, and I lead the MONT^2 Econ Lab, a joint research, policy, and training initiative of McGill University and the Universidad de Montevideo.
With Sebastian Hohmann and Tanner Regan, I teach an open-access GIS Methods in Research course hosted by the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. The 2025 course syllabus can be found here.
In 2020-2021, with Leopoldo Fergusson, I organized the Virtual Latin American Network in Economic HistOry and Political Economy, LANE HOPE.
IAE Featured Economist, July 2024.
Published and Forthcoming Papers
Illuminating the Global South(with Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou and Tanner Regan)Economic Journal, Forthcoming[paper & appendix] [data & replication] October 2025
Civil War-Induced Displacement and Human Capital(with Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou and Sandra Sequeira) Quarterly Journal of Economics, Conditionally Accepted[paper] [appendix] [slides] September 2025. Revised version of NBER WP 29589, CEPR DP16820
Landmines and Spatial Development (with Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou) Econometrica, September 2025, Vol. 93 (5), 1739–1778[paper] [appendix] [slides] [website] [data & replication] [AI podcast] February 2025. Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, QUARTZ, VoxDev, The Financial, Project Syndicate, El Pais
Weather Shocks Affect Trade Policy: Evidence from PTAs (with Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, and Michele Di Maio) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume107, Issue2 March 2025 Pages 696-717[paper]
Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South: Evidence from PTAs (with Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, and Michele Di Maio) Economic Policy, Volume 39, Issue 118, April 2024, Pages 275–322[paper] [summary]
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics(with Francesco Amodio and Sebastian Hohmann) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 456-491[paper] [data & replication] [VoxDev][Wheeler Institute Funding Report]
Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Party Politics in Africa(with Francesco Amodio and Dylan Munson) Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, 50(4), 969-980[paper]
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators' Support for Trade Agreements (with Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, and Michele Di Maio)The Journal of Politics, vol 84(2), 2022[paper]
Ethnicity and Violence During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from South Africa (with Francesco Amodio)Journal of the European Economic Association 2018, 16(4), 1234-1280[paper]
Civil War-Induced Displacement and Human Capital(with Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou and Sandra Sequeira) Quarterly Journal of Economics, Conditionally Accepted[paper] [appendix] [slides] September 2025. Revised version of NBER WP 29589, CEPR DP16820
Landmines and Spatial Development (with Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou) Econometrica, September 2025, Vol. 93 (5), 1739–1778[paper] [appendix] [slides] [website] [data & replication] [AI podcast] February 2025. Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, QUARTZ, VoxDev, The Financial, Project Syndicate, El Pais
Weather Shocks Affect Trade Policy: Evidence from PTAs (with Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, and Michele Di Maio) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume107, Issue2 March 2025 Pages 696-717[paper]
Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South: Evidence from PTAs (with Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, and Michele Di Maio) Economic Policy, Volume 39, Issue 118, April 2024, Pages 275–322[paper] [summary]
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics(with Francesco Amodio and Sebastian Hohmann) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 456-491[paper] [data & replication] [VoxDev][Wheeler Institute Funding Report]
Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Party Politics in Africa(with Francesco Amodio and Dylan Munson) Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, 50(4), 969-980[paper]
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators' Support for Trade Agreements (with Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, and Michele Di Maio)The Journal of Politics, vol 84(2), 2022[paper]
Ethnicity and Violence During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from South Africa (with Francesco Amodio)Journal of the European Economic Association 2018, 16(4), 1234-1280[paper]
Working Papers
Beefing Up the Service Sector:Commodity Export Booms and Production Network Spillovers(with Francesco Amodio and Serafin Frache)[paper] [slides] [video] [AI podcast] October 2025Media Coverage: VoxDev, El Observador, Busqueda.
Bourbon Reforms, State Capacity, and Revolution in the Spanish Empire (with Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis R. Martinez, Juan David Torres and Felipe Valencia-Caicedo)Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy[paper] June 2025
Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethnolinguistic Diversity (with Matteo Cervellati and Elena Esposito) [paper] [appendix] July 2019 revised version of CEPR DP 13437
Bourbon Reforms, State Capacity, and Revolution in the Spanish Empire (with Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis R. Martinez, Juan David Torres and Felipe Valencia-Caicedo)Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy[paper] June 2025
Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethnolinguistic Diversity (with Matteo Cervellati and Elena Esposito) [paper] [appendix] July 2019 revised version of CEPR DP 13437
Work in Progress
Private Colonialism in Africa(with Etienne le Rossignol, Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou)Project presentation.
Permanent Working Papers
Pre-Colonial Centralization, Colonial Activities and Development in Latin America [paper] Latest version: March 2016
Teaching
Development Economics - UndergraduatePublic Economics - Undergraduate
Topics in Development - GraduateEconometrics I - Graduate
GIS Methods Course (with Sebastian Hohmann and Tanner Regan)
Topics in Development - GraduateEconometrics I - Graduate
GIS Methods Course (with Sebastian Hohmann and Tanner Regan)
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