David Escamilla-Guerrero
Work in Progress
1. The effects of immigration on agricultural development: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
with Andrea Papadia and Ariell Zimran
NBER Working Paper 32083, Jan 2026 (Revised)
Media coverage: VoxDev · Cato Institute
Revised and Resubmitted to the Journal of Development Economics
2. Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: Evidence from Canada-US migration
with Chris Minns and Miko Lepisto
IZA Discussion Paper 16461, September 2023 · OESH Working Paper 214, January 2025 (Revised)
Collecting additional data
3. The short- and long-run effects of transportation infrastructure on international migration
with Giovanni Peri
4. The impact of immigration restrictions on third-country economies: Evidence of the Chinese Exclusion Act
with Hannah Postel
Collecting data
5. Minimum wages and gender inequality in the long run: Evidence from Mexico
with Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos and Valeria Rueda
6. 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
OESH Working Paper 212, October 2024
Publications
1. 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
2. Minimum eligibility age for social pensions and household poverty: Evidence from Mexico
with Clemente Ávila-Parra and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano
Economic Inquiry, January 2024
3. Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907
with Moramay López-Alonso
Journal of Economic History, January 2023
4. 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
Other Publications
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, January 2020
2022 Dissertation Prize Finalist, International Economic History Association