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Giorgio Chiovelli

Associate Professor, Universidad de Montevideo

Department of Economics and Business

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

e-mail gchiovelli@um.edu.uy

twitter @GChiovelli

MONT^2 Econ Lab Founding Member

With Sebastian Hohmann and Tanner Regan, I teach an open-access GIS Methods in Research course hosted by the Wheeler Institute.

The 2025 course syllabus can be found here.

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

Landmines and Spatial Development (with Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou) Econometrica, Forthcoming[paper] [appendix] [slides] [website] [data & replication] [AI podcast] February 2025. Revised draft of NBER WP 24758Media 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

Illuminating the Global South? (with Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou and Tanner Regan)Revise and Resubmit at Economic Journal[paper & appendix] June 2025Code to build and download data for the entire world: here
Bourbon Reforms, State Capacity, and Revolution in the Spanish Empire (with Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis R. Martinez, Juan David Torres and Felipe Valencia-Caicedo)[paper] June 2025

Beefing Up the Service Sector:Commodity Exports to China and Production Network Spillovers(with Francesco Amodio and Serafin Frache)[paper] [slides] [video] [AI podcast]Media Coverage: VoxDev, El Observador, Busqueda.
Forced Displacement and Human Capital(with Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou and Sandra Sequeira) Revise and Resubmit at Quarterly Journal of Economics [paper] [slides] November 2023. NBER WP 29589, CEPR DP16820
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)