Working papers

"Technology and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia" (submitted) [PDF]  [RCT Registry] [VoxDev][CoMiMo][Video]

"Forest conservation on a budget: Redesigning payments for ecosystem services in Mexico to increase cost-effectiveness " (R&R Nature Communications) (with Santiago Izquierdo-Tort and  Seema Jayachandran) [PDF] [Summary] [RCT Registry] 

"Politicians' age and long-term policy: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities" (submitted) [PDF] (with Ricardo Dahis and Ivan de las Heras)

Work in progress

"Air filters and student learning " (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)

"How Air Quality Affects the Extent and Quality of Engagement in Conference Sessions"  (with Ludovica Gazze and Mattie Toma)

"Discovering and Supporting Hidden Talents through Math Olympiads in Colombia " [RCT Registry] (with Colin Aitken Michael Kremer Maria Adelaida Martinez) 

"Market linkages and deforestation" (with Fanny Moffette)

"The perils of misusing remote sensing data The case of forest cover " (with Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Vargas)  [PDF] 

Publications

"Economic Development and Environmental Conservation: Evidence From Eco-Tourism " (accepted Economic Development and Cultural Change) [PDF] [Data & Code] [RCT Registry] [Pre-Analysis Plan]  

"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] 

Other

"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 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]