Working papers and work in progress

Under review

"Education and Youth-Development Interventions for Organized-Crime Prevention in Developing Countries: Evidence, Extrapolation, and Policy" (with Martín Vanegas-Arias)

"From Schools of Crime to Criminal Hubs? Prisons and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean" (with Ernesto Schargrodsky)

"Respect, Neutrality, and Police Legitimacy: A Representative Vignette Experiment in Post-Conflict Colombia" (with Verónica Abril, Santiago Pérez-Vincent and Martín Vanegas-Arias). Revise and resubmit at Justice Quarterly.

"Votes Follow Stakes: Peace Negotiations and Electoral Shifts in Armed-Group Territories" (with Michael Weintraub)

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Organized crime

"The Pax Criminalis" (with Chris Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, Ben Lessing and Juan F. Martinez)

"Gangs of Medellín: How organized crime is organized" (with Chris Blattman, Gustavo Duncan and Ben Lessing)

"Who Joins Drug-Selling Gangs and Why? Beliefs and Recruitment Risk among 10,000 Adolescent Boys" (with Chris Blattman and Arantxa Rodríguez-Uribe)

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Illicit economies

"How Illegal Income Improves Schooling: Cocaine Production and Education in Colombia" (with Ivonne Lara, Martín Vanegas-Arias and Juan Vargas)

"Do Illegal Economies Reduce Local Fiscal Capacity?" (with Patricia Justino, Martín Vanegas-Arias and Juan Vargas)

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Policing and trust in state institutions

"Building trust in state actors: A multi-site experiment with the Colombian National Police" (with Verónica Abril, Ervyn Norza, Santiago Pérez-Vincent and Michael Weintraub)