Research
Research
"Technology and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia" (Revise & Resubmit resubmitted at AEJ Applied) [PDF] [RCT Registry] [VoxDev][CoMiMo][Video]
"Air filters and student learning " (with Michael Kremer and Mauricio Romero) [RCT Registry] [PDF][NBER ppt]
"Young Local Politicians and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon" (Revise & Resubmit resubmitted at JAERE) [PDF] (with Ricardo Dahis and Ivan de las Heras)
"Deforestation, market linkages, and health: Evidence from slaughterhouse closures in Colombia" (Revise & Resubmit at JEEM) (with Fanny Moffette) [PDF]
"Power Plays in the Jungle: Political Alignment and Environmental Degradation in Colombia" (Revise & Resubmit at JEEM) (with Juan Miguel Jimenez and Lizeth Molina Alvarez) [PDF]
"Air Quality and Conferences' Engagement" (submitted) (with Ludovica Gazze, Tanu Gupta, Allen Huang, Valentina Londoño and Mattie Toma) [Paper]
"Discovering and Supporting Hidden Talents through Math Olympiads in Colombia " (with Tomas Buitrago) [Closing Ceremony Talk] [RCT Registry]
"Air filters in early childhood " (with Michael Kremer and Mauricio Romero) [RCT Registry]
"Digging for Votes: Machine-learning detection of illegal mining and its effects on political outcomes" (with Juan Felipe Riaño)
"Evaluating the private provision of conservation: the case of Africa Parks" (with Prakash Mishra)
"Economic Development and Environmental Conservation: Evidence From Eco-Tourism " [Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73] [Data & Code] [RCT Registry] [Pre-Analysis Plan]
"Forest conservation on a budget: Redesigning payments for ecosystem services in Mexico to increase cost-effectiveness " (Nature Communications, 2024, 15) (with Santiago Izquierdo-Tort and Seema Jayachandran) [Code] [NBER] [Summary] [RCT Registry]
"Do COVID-19 Lockdowns Affect Deforestation? " (Environment and Development Economics, 2023) [Data&Code]
"One Step Ahead of the Law: The Net Effect of Anticipation and Implementation of Colombia's Illegal Crops Substitution Program" [Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 202] (with Juan Felipe Ladino and Daniel Wiesner) [Data&Code]
"Local incentives and national tax evasion: Unintended effects of a mining reform in Colombia " [European Economic Review, 2021, 138] (with Mauricio Romero) [Data&Code]
"Communal Property Rights and Deforestation" [Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57 ] (with Mauricio Romero) [Data&Code]
"The Daily Grind: Cash Needs, Labor Supply and Self-Control " [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177 ] (with Pascaline Dupas and Jon Robinson) [Data&Code]
"End-of-Conflict Deforestation: Evidence from Colombia's Peace Agreement " [World Development ,2020, 129 ] (with Mounu Prem and Juan Vargas) [Data] [Code]
"Impediments to legalization and consequences for social conflict " [PDF] [RCT Registry]
"The Effect of Gold Mining on the Health of Newborns" (with Mauricio Romero) [PDF]
"The perils of misusing remote sensing data The case of forest cover " (with Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Vargas) [PDF]
"The economic lives of the poor: Colombia" (with Nicolas Peña Tenjo) [PDF]
"SIR-macro with sectors " [Code]
"Job migration in a rivalry setting" (with Robert Fletcher) [PDF]