Peer-reviewed articles
"España-Eljaiek, I., Fernández-Cebrián, P., & Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J. (2024). An education to colonise. The educational discrimination of indigenous people in colonial settings: lessons from Colombia and Mozambique. Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 15-pp.” link
“Fuentes-Vásquez, M.J (2023). The origins of mass education in Colombia. Revista Uruguaya de Historia Económica. 23(XXIII), 10–44.” “Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J. (2019). Educational Disparities in Colombia 1904-58: New Evidence from a Regional Level Approach. Revista de Historia Economica-Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 37(3), 443-478.” link - download database
“España-Eljaiek, I., Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J., & Gaviria-Meléndez, N. S. (2022). El valor económico de la mujer: ratios de género, migración y feminización de ocupaciones urbanas en Colombia durante el siglo XX. Tiempo y economía, 9(2).” link
“Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J., & España-Eljaiek, I. (2022). Coffee tastes bitter: education and the coffee economy in Colombia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. European Review of Economic History, 27(2), 174-195.” link
Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J. (2019). Educational disparities in Colombia 1904-58: new evidence from a regional level approach. Revista de Historia Economica-Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 37(3), 443-478. link
Book chapters
España-Eljaiek, I., & Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J. (forthcoming 2026). Left Behind Twice: Gender and Rurality in Colombian Schooling during the 20th Century. In Pathways to Equity and Access in Education in the Caribbean and Beyond. Taylor & Francis. In press.
Book reviews
"Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J. (2025). [Review of] Valencia Caicedo, Felipe, ed. 2023. Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 553 pp. Revista de Historia Industrial, 95, 175–178. link
"Fuentes-Vásquez, M. J. (2020). [Review of] El pasillo estrecho: Estados, sociedades y cómo alcanzar la libertad. Investigaciones de Historia Económica – Economic History Research." link
"The Impact of Liberal Reforms on Female Education in Colombia in the First Half of the 20th Century: A Regional Approach", with Anna Carreras Marín and Sergio Espuelas
"Does Education Fuel Prosperity? New Evidence from European Historical Spatial Data (1870–1950)", with Gabriele Cappelli
"Beyond the Homo Economicus: Female Economic Agency in Colonial Hispanic America"
"Free of all Colors: The Emergence of the Mixed-Race Population as the Engine of the Colonial Latin American Economy", with Irina España-Eljaiek