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Santiago is Associate Editor at JDE and Associate Professor at the Economics Department at Universidad del Rosario. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

His research interests are in Development, Education, and Environmental Economics.  In particular, he is interested in how economic development and governance affects natural resources. To overcome data availability limitations, he uses satellite data and machine learning. He has studied topics of illegal mining, deforestation,  eco-tourism, air pollution, and payments for ecosystem services. His latest research is on discovering and supporting hidden talent with Math Olympiads.

Former RAs have been admitted to PhDs at MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, BU, Stockholm, SMU; and pre-docs at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, UPenn.