Mauricio Espinoza

Journal articles

The Rule of Law, Collective Action, and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru (with Phillip Keefer, Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort). Economic Development and Cultural Change. Forthcoming.
The Impact of Peru’s Land Reform on National Agricultural Productivity: A Synthetic Control Study (with Javier Escobal). Land Use Policy, 157, 107619, 2025.
Food Safety Certification in Urban Food Markets: The Willingness to Pay for Safer Meat in Peru (with Ayako Ebata and Giel Ton). Food Security, 17, 461-476, 2025.
New Approach to Children’s Work that Prioritises Resilience, Well-being and Agency: Emerging Findings from a ‘Cash Plus’ Intervention in Bangladesh (with Neil Howard, Keetie Roelen, Giel Ton, Kabita Chowdhury, Taslima Aktar, and Lopita Huq). BMJ Paediatrics Open, 9:e002422, 2025.
Evaluating the Efficacy of Social Innovation Programming at Advancing Rural Development in the Context of Exogenous Shocks (with Rodrigo Rivarola, Ricardo Fort, and Joshua Fisher). Sustainability, 16(13):5664, 2024.
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance (with Giel Ton and Ricardo Fort). The Journal of Development Studies, 59:6, 854-872, 2023.
Land reform and human capital development: evidence from Peru (with Michael Albertus and Ricado Fort). Journal of Development Economics, 147, 102540, 2020.

Book chapters

Food Distribution Models in Latin America: Unraveling the Effects of Physical Access on Food Security (with Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort). In: Cimadamore, A.D., Cherniak, C.B. (eds) Food Security in the Era of the SDGs. Global Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83841-5_9
Reorganizing Peru: Intermediate Cities and Development (with Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort). In Maria Balarin, Santiago Cueto, Ricardo Fort (editors). "The Pending Peru: Essays for a Development with Well-being". GRADE / CENDOC. Lima: 287-310 (chapter 4A), 2022.
50 years after the Peruvian Agrarian Reform: New Evidence on its Spatial-Temporal Unfolding and Long-Term Effects (with Javier Escobal and Ricardo Fort). In Vargas, Silvana and Bravo, Mirella (editors). Peru: The Agrarian Problem in Debate. SEPIA XVII / Permanent Seminar on Agricultural Research. Lima: 33-70, 2020.
Productivity of Peru’s Agriculture (with Ricardo Fort). In World Bank Gaining momentum in Peruvian agriculture: Opportunities to increase productivity and enhance competitiveness. Washington, DC: World Bank, 58-90 (chapter 5), 2017.
Food Security and Negative Shocks in Rural Peru (with Miguel Figallo). In Ascencio, Raúl H., Eguren, Fernando, & Ruiz, Manuel (editors). Peru: The Agrarian Problem in Debate. SEPIA XIV / Permanent Seminar on Agricultural Research. Lima: 329-361, 2012.

Books

Peru: The Agrarian Problem in Debate. SEPIA XX / Permanent Seminar on Agrarian Research. Araujo, A., Espinoza, M., & Bravo, M. (Eds.) Lima: SEPIA, 800p, 2024.
Comparative Study of Interventions for Rural Development in the Southern Highlands of Peru (with Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, and Ramón Pajuelo). Lima: FORD Foundation; GRADE. 160p, 2012.

Working Papers

CLARISSA Cash Plus Social Protection Intervention: An Evaluation (with Neil Howard, Keetie Roelen, Giel Ton, Afrin Aktar, and Saklain Al Mamun). CLARISSA Research and Evidence Paper 12, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2024.
The impact of the Pandemic on the Food Distribution System in Peru: Retail Food Markets (with Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort). Lima: GRADE. (Research Papers, 126), 2022.
Salmonella in Chicken and Pork Meat are Likely to be a Major Contributor to Foodborne Illness in Peru (with Ana Ho-Palma, Eloy Gonzales-Gustavson, Giel Ton, Ricardo Fort, Armando Gonzales, Javier Guitan, and others). SSRN Working Paper, 2022.
COVID-19 and Migration from the City to the Countryside in Peru: Identification of Threats and Opportunities for the Sustainable Use of Natural Capital (with Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza). Editors: Paloma Marcos Morezuelas, Carlos Javier Puig, Jaime Fernández-Baca, Ana Saori Iju Fukushima, Santiago Bucaram, María Jimena Romero. IADB Technical Note 2234. December 2021.
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru (with Philip Keefer, Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort). IADB Working Paper N° IDB-WP-1061, 2019.
Understanding Heterogeneity in Peruvian Agriculture: A meta-frontier Approach for Analyzing Technical Efficiency (with Ricardo Fort, Ashwini Sebastian, Michael Morris, and Luis Villazón). 30th ICAE Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277134, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2018.
Peasant Modernization Under Scrutiny: Exploring the Impact of Sierra Productiva Program at the District Level. Research Progress Papers (18). Lima: GRADE. 94p, 2014.

Work in progress

The Unpromised Land: Elites and Human Capital Development in 20th-Century Peru (with Héctor Paredes). Draft coming soon.
Pathways of Development: The Long Shadow of Peru's Inca Road (with Michael Albertus, Ricardo Fort, and Álvaro Espinoza). Draft coming soon.
Competition, Social Learning and Mobile Money Adoption: Evidence from Peru (with Phillip Keefer, Ricardo Fort, Álvaro Espinoza, and Rodrigo Rivarola). Draft coming soon.