Working Papers

1. Migrant self-selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907

with Moramay López-Alonso.

Revisions requested by The Journal of Economic History

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2. Initial determinants of Mexican mass migration

New Researcher Poster Prize 2018, Economic History Society.

Poster Prize 2018, World Economic History Congress.

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3. What are the effects of expanding a social pension program on extreme poverty and labor supply?

with Clemente Ávila-Parra.

World Bank Policy Research WP No. 8229, October 2017.

Publications

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

with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward.

Explorations in Economic History (2021). Vol. 82, 101403.

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

Historical Methods (2020). Vol. 53, No. 4, 207-225.

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Other Publications

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

Economic History Review (2021). Vol. 74, Issue 3, 864-65. Book Review.

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2. Cliometric Essays on Mexican migration to the United States

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

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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 in Spanish only.

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* Pre-Ph.D. publication.