working papers
Skilled Immigration and Firm-level Upgrading as Exports Boosters in a Developing Country - 2025
The influx of high-skilled labor due to the Venezuelan exodus enabled firms in the Colombian manufacturing sector to enhance their workforce's skills and increase investments in R&D. This, in turn, improved their production and organizational processes, leading to better international trade performance, particularly with high-income countries.
Joint with Carlo Lombardo.
Is Drug-Related Violence Fueling Emigration from Central America? - 2025
Drug-related violence in Central American countries significantly increases individuals' intentions, plans, and preparations to migrate to the United States.
Joint with Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía, Jessica Bracco, and Andrés Ham.
Lithium extraction in the Atacama Salt Flat (Chile) reduced the water availability, vegetation, economic activity, and human settlements in the local communities nearby.
Joint with Vaios Triantafyllou and Gonzalo Martínez.
[Revise and Resubmit - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management]