Working Papers and Work in Progress

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

with Chris Minns and Miko Lepisto

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

Project summary (Draft coming soon)

3. Can social pensions reduce poverty? Evidence from Mexico

with Clemente Ávila-Parra and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano

Revisions submitted to Economic Inquiry.

4. Initial determinants of Mexican mass migration

2018 New Researcher Poster Prize, Economic History Society

2018 Poster Prize, World Economic History Congress

Project summary (New draft coming soon)

5. The effects of immigration in a frontier economy: Brazil 1890-1920

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

Publications

1. Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907

The Journal of Economic History, January 2023.

2. Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration

Explorations in Economic History, October 2021.

3. Revisiting Mexican migration in the Age of Mass Migration: New evidence from individual border crossings

Historical Methods, April 2020.

1. Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economy

Economic History Review, July 2021 (Book Review).

2. Cliometric Essays on Mexican migration to the United States

Ph.D. Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science, January 2020.

2022 Dissertation Prize Finalist, World Economic History Congress.

3. La pobreza rural en México. Perspectivas de política pública*

with Ricardo Aparicio and Nayeli Salgado

In El agro y las áreas rurales en el México del siglo XXI, UNAM, 2014. Available only in Spanish.

* Pre-Ph.D. publication.