1.- Resource Booms and Entrenched Gender Roles in the Andes. Review of Development Economics (With Jose Carlos Orihuela) paper. 

This paper examines the effects of mining booms on local labor markets in contexts where traditional gender roles limit women's participation. Results show that job creation is primarily driven by increased male employment in mining, with spillovers into construction and local services. Female employment responses are mixed, while some women gain access to these jobs, others shift toward unpaid domestic work. The expansion of mining appears to benefit men and unmarried women, while married women and those with caregiving responsibilities face reduced opportunities. Women are also more affected by heterogeneity in age and education. The findings underscore the role of the care economy and gender dynamics in shaping labor market outcomes during resource booms.

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

Abstract: The local effects of mining might simply come and go with mine production. In this paper we revisit Aragón and Rud’s (2013) study of the Yanacocha mine, frequently cited to account for local economic effects and backward linkages, but we offer a more nuanced interpretation: first, effects fade with the mine exhaustion; and second, impacts are the result of consumption boom-and-bust dynamics. While we find it more conceptually accurate to reserve the concept of backward linkages for effects of a productive nature, our evidence reveals that unskilled services is the one sector that benefits, in contrast to manufactures and skilled services. We stress that impact evaluations of mines are contingent to time and place, and contend that exploring the extent to which multipliers generate spillovers is central. The short-run effects of a mine might in fact give little indication of how to tell or make a blessing from a curse.

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

Abstract:  We typify resource-based economic development in Peru in the period 2001–2015, analyzing regional export specialization, growth volatility, and de-industrialization, three resource curse symptoms. With the commodity cycle: (i) export specialization is not the same in all mineral producer regions; (ii) regional growth volatility is much higher at regional level than at national level; and (iii) there is no convincing case of de-industrialization and the Dutch disease, because a world economy surge does not operate as a national resource discovery. We say economic evolution within resource-rich Peru is volatile and spatially varied. At the national level, gold-and- copper-dependent Peru is not as vulnerable as other mineral dependent countries to external shocks. At the sub-national level, growth volatility is very high for clusters of regions: we should be asking where, when, and why there is curse or blessing, and what type of it, rather than searching for a definitive universal answer on the developmental effects of mineral abundance.

1.- ¿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.