"Statebuilding in the City: An Experiment in Civilian Alternatives to Policing" (with Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan and Benjamin Lessing). Conditionally Accepted at American Political Science Review [NBER Working Paper | SocArXiv Working Paper | Outreach: Nota de Política EAFIT, EDI Essay Series, EDI Research Videos, EDI Research Insights]
"Gang rule: Understanding and countering criminal governance" (with Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan and Benjamin Lessing). Review of Economic Studies [Paper | Replication | Outreach: Twitter thread (English), Twitter thread (Spanish), Twitter thread (Portuguese), Nota de Política EAFIT, Webinar with key stakeholders, EDI Research Videos, EDI Research Insights, El Tiempo, Caracol Radio, El Colombiano, Foco Económico, La Silla Vacía] (forthcoming)
"Production and persistence of criminal skills: Evidence from a high-crime context," Journal of Development Economics, 160 (with Maria A. Escobar and Martin Vanegas-Arias). [Paper | Outreach: Twitter thread (Spanish)] (2023)
"Do better prisons reduce recidivism? Evidence from a prison construction program," Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(6), 1256-1272 [Paper | Replication | Outreach: VoxDev, El Espectador, Razón Pública, Twitter thread] (2022)
"Place-based interventions at scale: The direct and spillover effects of policing and city services on crime," Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(4), 2022-2051 (with Chris Blattman, Donald Green and Daniel Ortega). [Paper | Online appendix | Teaching materials | Replication | Outreach: J-PAL Policy Reports] (2021)
"The Deterrent Effects of Surveillance Cameras on Crime," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 40(2), 553-571 (with Santiago Gómez and Daniel Mejía). [Paper] (2021)
"Hot Spots Policing in a High Crime Environment: An Experimental Evaluation in Medellín," Journal of Experimental Criminology, 17, 473–506 (with Daniela Collazos, Eduardo García, Daniel Mejía and Daniel Ortega). [Paper] (2021)
"The role of land property rights in the war on illicit crops: Evidence from Colombia" World Development, 103, 268-283 (with Juan Carlos Muñoz and Jesse D'Anjou). [Paper | Outreach: IDS Policy Briefings] (2018)
"The Perils of Military Policing," Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 843-844 [Invited commentary | Paper] (2023)
"Community policing in the developing world," Science, 374(6571), 1046-1047. [Invited commentary | Paper | Outreach: Twitter thread (Spanish)] (2021)
"Crime: Economics of, The Standard Approach", in Marciano, Alain, Ramello, Giovanni Battista (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer (with Paolo Buonanno and Juan Vargas). [Chapter] (2023)
"Prisons", in Marciano, Alain, Ramello, Giovanni Battista (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer (with Paolo Buonanno and Juan Vargas). [Chapter] (2022)
"Broken windows policing and crime: Evidence from 80 Colombian cities," in Buonanno, P., Vanin, P. and Vargas, J. (Eds.) A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, 55-87 (with Daniel Mejía, Ervyn Norza and Martín Vanegas-Arias). [Book | Working paper] (2022)
"Building trust in state actors: A multi-site experiment with the Colombian National Police" (with Verónica Abril, Ervyn Norza, Santiago Pérez-Vincent and Michael Weintraub)
"Building anti-social behaviors: The impacts of violence exposure" (with Verónica Abril and Brayan Pineda)
"Do procedurally just interactions increase trust in the police? Evidence from a survey experiment in Colombia" (with Verónica Abril, Santiago Pérez-Vincent and Martín Vanegas-Arias)
"Who expects to join criminal gangs and why? Occupational choice among 15,000 teenage boys in Medellín" (with Chris Blattman and Arantxa Rodríguez-Uribe)
"The Pax Criminalis" (with Chris Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, Ben Lessing and Juan F. Martinez)
"Gangs of Medellín: How organized crime is organized" (with Chris Blattman, Gustavo Duncan and Ben Lessing)
"Organized crime in Rio de Janeiro: Understanding non-state provision of order and justice" (with Benjamin Lessing and Joana Monteiro)
"Crises conducting stakeholder salience: Shifts in the evolution of private universities' governance in Latin America," Corporate Governance, 21(6), 1194-1214 (with Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Miguel Cordova, Erica Salvaj, Santiago Mingo, Carlos Rodriguez, Karla María Nava-Aguirre, Michel Hermans, Fabiola Monje Cueto and Dinorá Floriani). [Paper] (2021)
"Meta-Analysis of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Deficiency," Pediatric Transplantation, 24(6), e13774 (with Lina Castano-Jaramillo, Jose Bareno-Silva and Andres Escobar-Gonzalez). [Paper | Outreach: Twitter thread] (2020)
"El gasto fiscal de la guerra contra los portadores de drogas ilícitas: Una aproximación para Colombia," Lecturas de Economía, 91, 79-116 (with Isabel Gutiérrez). [Paper] (2019)
"La situación del narcotráfico en Colombia ad portas del posconflicto," Contribuciones de la Universidad a la Agenda de La Habana, Edited by: Jorge Giraldo. Ed: Universidad EAFIT (with Isabel Gutiérrez and Gustavo Duncan). [Chapter] (2018)
"El Ciclo Criminal del Microtráfico y Consumo de Drogas: Contexto Nacional y Consecuencias en Entornos Locales," Territorios y Sociabilidades Violentas: Santo Domingo, San Juan, Sao Paulo, Cali y Medellin. Edited by: Jorge Giraldo. Ed: Universidad EAFIT (with Isabel Gutiérrez). [Chapter] (2017)
"Evaluación y seguimiento a las actividades de la policía de vigilancia," Gestión Territorial de la Seguridad en el Posconflicto. Edited by: Isabel Gutiérrez. Ed: Universidad EAFIT y Escuela de Postgrados de Policía, Policía Nacional (with Isabel Gutiérrez). [Chapter] (2017)
"La inversión obligatoria y el crédito agropecuario en Colombia," El desarrollo equitativo, competitivo y sostenible del sector agropecuario en Colombia. Edited by: Carlos Gustavo Cano, Ana María Iregui, Maria Teresa Ramírez & Ana María Tribín. Ed: Banco de la República (with Dairo Estrada and Paula Zuleta). [Chapter] (2016)
"The Rational Expectations Hypothesis: An Assessment on its Real World Application," Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics, 18(37), 37-47. [Paper] (2014)
"Instituciones y cultivos ilícitos," Economía criminal y poder político, Edited by: Jorge Giraldo. Ed: Universidad EAFIT. [Chapter] (2013)
"Impuesto predial y desarrollo económico. Aproximación a la relación entre el impuesto predial y la inversión de los municipios de Antioquia," Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics, 17(36), 173-198 (with Juan Carlos Muñoz). [Paper] (2013)