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Work in Progress

1. The impact of violence during the Mexican Revolution on migration to the United States

with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward

IZA Discussion Paper 16359July 2023

NBER Working Paper 31531August 2023

2. Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: Evidence from Canada-US migration

with Chris Minns and Miko Lepisto

IZA Discussion Paper 16461, September 2023

Submitted

3. The effects of immigration in a developing country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

with Andrea Papadia and Ariell Zimran

IZA Discussion Paper 16741, January 2024

NBER Working Paper 32083, May 2024 (Revised) 

Submitted

​4. All aboard! Railroad access and Mexico-US mass migration

prepared for the volume "Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean"

edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo 

Oxford Economic and Social History Working Paper 212, October 2024

5. Minimum wages and gender inequality in the long run: Evidence from Mexico

with Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos and Valeria Rueda

Project summary

6. The impact of foreign language skills on migration and labor market dynamics

with Raissa Fabregas and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano

Project summary

Publications

1. "Minimum Eligibility Age for Social Pensions and Household Poverty: Evidence from Mexico," with Clemente Ávila-Parra and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano. Economic Inquiry, August 2023.

2. "Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907," with Moramay López-Alonso. The Journal of Economic History, January 2023.

3. "Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration," with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward. Explorations in Economic History, October 2021.

4. "Revisiting Mexican migration in the Age of Mass Migration: New evidence from individual border crossings." Historical Methods, April 2020.

Other Publications

1. Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economyEconomic History Review, July 2021 (Book Review).

2. Cliometric essays on Mexican migration to the United StatesPh.D. Thesis, London School of Economics, January 2020.

2022 Dissertation Prize Finalist, International Economic History Association.

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