I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at Cornell University. I hold a Master of Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
I have worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Chicago and ETH Zurich. I have also served as a research consultant for the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit at the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
My research lies at the intersection of Development Economics and Political Economy. I use applied empirical methods to study how natural resource wealth affects local economic development, labor markets, and the behavior of incumbent politicians in developing countries.
I have published articles in journals as Review of Development Economics, Environment and Development Economics, and Extractive Industries and Society.
Email: vjg34@cornell.edu and Google Scholar.
1.- Resource Booms and Entrenched Gender Roles in the Andes. Review of Development Economics (With Jose Carlos Orihuela) paper.
2.- The Fading Local Effects: Boom and Bust evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine. Environment and Development Economics 25 (2), pp. 182-203. (With Jose Carlos Orihuela) paper
3.- Volatile and Spatially varied: The geographically differentiated economic outcomes of resource-based development in Peru, 2001-2015. Extractive Industries and Society 6 (4), pp. 1143-1155. (With Jose Carlos Orihuela) paper
¿Más o menos vulnerables? Prácticas Agrícolas y Adaptación al Cambio Climático en la Pequeña Agricultura Familiar Peruana desde la perspectiva de género. Informe Final. Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (with Carlos A. Pérez) paper.
Decentralization and sub national capabilities: regional movements and state capture.