🇵🇪 PhD candidate at @PSEinfo & @SorbonneParis1 | Political Econ, Development & Music (lots of music) | Former @bse_barcelona, @GRADEPeru.
Paris, France
Joined August 2018
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Absolutely thrilled to share that my work on the local politics of land reform in Peru has been awarded the 2024 New Researcher Prize by the Economic History Society @EcHistSoc! Sharing the joy with incredible colleagues at Lund, TCD @iris_siedler and Oxford @robertyee_! 🎉
Back to Oxford! Just back after a very cool couple of days at OxDev 2026 at @St_Catz. A great space for learning & exchange. Even better: this time next to my PhD brother @MarceloGantierM. Many thanks to CSAE for the invitiation!
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Using two regression discontinuity designs and data from 150,000 Indian village councils to find that expanding “hyperlocal” representation has limited effects on key governance outcomes, from Veda Narasimhan and @Jeff_Weaver_ nber.org/papers/w35217
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La Univ. Stanford publicó el análisis de demoras en las elecciones Peruanas más riguroso al día de hoy.
Junto con @diazcayeros,@BMagaloni y C.Dann, analizamos todas las actas en Lima con un análisis causal que responde la pregunta que nos hacemos en Perú:
¿Cambió el resultado?
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As part of the @EcHistSoc centenary, the Women’s Committee will screen a retrospective, featuring women economic historians, in their own words, on the past, present and future of women in EH. Screening Friday, 10 April, 18:25, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE. Short clip 👇
#CEPRPoliticalEconomySymposium2026. Back in Lisbon! Great papers & sunny days at @NovaSBE . Many thanks to Nikita and the organizers for the invitation!
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Hi #EconTwitter, I’m excited to be on the #EconJobMarket!
My JMP asks a timely question with important implications for democracy: why do politicians produce toxic rhetoric?
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Had a terrific time presenting at the Seminar for Political Economy and Economic History (SPEECH) at @LSEEcon yesterday! Great discussion and a chance to meet with old & new friends! Many thanks to Ellen, Gailius and Maria for the cool hosting!
Thrilled to visit Maastricht to present at the @UNUMERIT Seminar Series this Thursday!🎉Great space to discuss our ongoing project with @maurespin on the human capital legacies of Haciendas.
unu.edu/merit/seminar/unprom…
Casi un siglo después y a pesar de esfuerzos desde distintas ciencias sociales, todavía sabemos poco sobre los impactos del auge del caucho en las sociedades de la Amazonía. @felipev84 resume en @EconomiaUAndes los avances de nuestro proyecto con un gran equipo de colegas! 🇨🇴🇧🇷🇵🇪
🌿 #Voces | Paraíso del diablo en el Putumayo
🔗 bit.ly/4olv2kC
📉 En #VocesDeEconomía, Felipe Valencia Caicedo – @felipev84 – revela cómo las huellas del caucho siguen marcando el presente del Putumayo.
👉 bit.ly/4olv2kC
📚 Más columnas en: economia.uniandes.edu.co/voc…
“If the twentieth century has shown us anything, it is that the capacity of humans for intolerance, stupidity, and selfishness has not declined as their technological power has increased.”
— Joel Mokyr, The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy (2002)
Joel Mokyr – awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences – was born in 1946 in Leiden, the Netherlands.
He received his PhD in 1974 from @Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. He is currently a professor at @NorthwesternU, Evanston, IL, USA and Eitan Berglas School of Economics, @TelAvivUni, Israel.
economics.northwestern.edu/p…
Very much looking forward to next week’s 5th Arne Ryde Workshop on Culture, Institutions, and Development at @lunduniversity! 🎉 Great line-up and keynote session ahead. Many thanks to Gunes for the invitation!
Great review on the (quite unexplored) mapping between culture and contemporary political preferences! 🎉The authors kindly incorporated some of my comments to a previous version of the chapter.
*Prepared for the forthcoming Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior.
Reviewing the literature on the relationship between culture and political preferences, from Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini nber.org/papers/w33786
Difícil mejor cierre luego de dos días compartiendo con amigxs sobre historia latinoamericana en Lima 🇵🇪🥂🎉. Más de 5,000 años de historia del antiguo Perú @MuseoLarco. Siempre gracias @marialopezuribe, @felipev84 por la increíble organización @RIDGE_uy @econhistlacea – at Magdalena del Mar, Peru
It’s a wrap for the @RIDGE_uy @econhistlacea @voxlacea workshop of Historical Development @UdelPacifico in Lima, here in beautiful @MuseoLarco @marialopezuribe @huaroto_cesar @JennyGuardado7
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And now @hparedes_c on the impact of haciendas on development in Peru
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Thanks to all participants for a fantastic development economics workshop! The 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM) are not over yet. Tomorrow we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital.”
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@npguerrerot shows that a non-state security arrangement in Peru, the Peasant Rounds, generated long-lasting reductions in criminality and conflict by fostering social capital. The research highlights the importance of bottom-up structures in weak state capacity settings.
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@hparedes_c looks at the effects of a land expropriation and redistribution process in Peru on local political competition. The reform increased the number of contesting parties, voter turnout, and the participation of more educated, older, and indigenous candidates.
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Amazing lineup of @UCBerkeley, @Stanford, @ucdavis, @ucmerced students at the Bay Area Economic History Workshop — happening tomorrow at UC Berkeley!
Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
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Here in France, research is a priority, innovation is a culture, and science is a boundless horizon. Researchers from around the world, choose France, choose Europe! See you on May 5.
→ choosefrance.fr/forscience