Publications & Books

• Rural Studies: Land regularization and technical efficiency in agricultural production: An empirical study in Andean countries 

• Review of Development Economics: Jara, H. Xavier, et al. Assessing the role of tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Andean region. V28, N3, 2024.

• Chapter Book: The role of tax–benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poor Protection The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises Edited by Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, and Pia Rattenhuber

Working Papers

• Peruvian civil service: determinants of the length of stay and effects of labor rotation on performance. Chang, R.; Fernandez, W. and Gutierrez, K. (2022). Working paper.

• Is the electronic voting technology shaping election outcomes? Evidence from Peru, Javier Torres, Esteban Penelas, Rodrigo Chang and Laura Castellanos. (2023).

• Cyclicality of Fiscal Transfers for a Latin American Small Open Economy: The Perils of Earmarked Transfers. Javier Torres; Alexandra Málaga and Rodrigo Chang.

Grants

• Research Grant, Peruvian Social and Economic Research Consortium, 2021.

• Research Grant, Global Challenges Research Fund - UK, 2020-2021.

• Lima School of Economics: Summer School, 2021. 50% tuition waiver.

Conferences

• SOUTHMOD Workshop, UNU-WIDER. Oslo, Norway

• 5th Congress of the Peruvian Economic Association, Peru, 2018. Paper: “Cognitive peer effects in Peru: Evidence in ECE tests”, with Jose Chumpitasi.

• IX Ibero-American Conference on Local Financing, October 2020. Paper: “The effect of job rotation in the Peruvian public sector”, with William Fernandez and Katherine Gutierrez.