Research
Research
"Technology, Information and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia" (conditionally accepted 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]
"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) [NBER ppt] [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)
"Young Local Politicians and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon" (Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2026 ,13) (with Ricardo Dahis and Ivan de las Heras) [PDF] [Data & Code][VoxDev]
"Deforestation, market linkages, and health: Evidence from slaughterhouse closures in Colombia" (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2026, 138) (with Fanny Moffette) [Data & Code]
"Power Plays in the Jungle: Political Alignment and Environmental Degradation in Colombia" (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2026, 138) (with Juan Miguel Jimenez and Lizeth Molina Alvarez) [PDF]
"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]