David Escamilla-Guerrero
Work in Progress
• The short- and long-run effects of railroads on Mexico-US migration
with Giovanni Peri
NBER Working Paper 35358, June 2026 · IZA Discussion Paper 18736, June 2026
• Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: Evidence from Canada-US migration
with Chris Minns and Miko Lepisto
OESH Working Paper 214, January 2025 (Revised)
Collecting additional data
• The impact of immigration restrictions on third-country economies: Evidence of the Chinese Exclusion Act
with Hannah Postel
Collecting data
• Minimum wages and gender inequality in the long run: Evidence from Mexico
with Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos and Valeria Rueda
Collecting data
Journal Articles
• The effects of immigration on agricultural development: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
with Andrea Papadia and Ariell Zimran
Journal of Development Economics, June 2026
• The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution
with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward
Journal of Development Economics, May 2025
• Minimum eligibility age for social pensions and household poverty: Evidence from Mexico
with Clemente Ávila-Parra and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano
Economic Inquiry, January 2024
• Migrant self-selection and random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907
with Moramay López-Alonso
Journal of Economic History, January 2023
• Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration
with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward
Explorations in Economic History, October 2021
Historical Methods, April 2020
Book Chapters
• All aboard! Railroad access and Mexico-US mass migration
in "Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean"
edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Forthcoming
Other Publications
• Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economy
Economic History Review, July 2021 (Book Review)
• Cliometric essays on Mexican migration to the United States
Ph.D. Thesis, London School of Economics, January 2020
2022 Dissertation Prize Finalist, International Economic History Association