Economic History & Development
Research
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
Richard Feynman
My main research fields are economic history and development. One of things that fascinates me about economic history is that it attempts to answer the most diverse questions about human behaviour using tools from pretty much every corner of economics promoting, at the same time, interaction with other disciplines. This creates potential for a rich and varied agenda which, in my case, is broadly related to development issues and concentrated on topics of economic growth in the long run, welfare and standards of living, institutional dynamics, crime and conflict, demographic change, and market integration.
Published Papers
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“Confinement and Intimate Partner Violence,” (with M. A. Gibbons and M. A. Rossi), Kyklos, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 349-361, 2021. [2021 UdeSA WP]
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“Following the Poppy Trail: Causes and Consequences of Mexican Drug Cartels” (with M. A. Rossi), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 143, Article 102433, 2020. [2017 UdeSA WP]
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“Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World” (with G. Alfani), Journal of Economic History, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 314-343, 2017.
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“Land Tenure and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico” (with M. A. Rossi), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 131, Part A, pp. 106-113, 2016. [2015 Dondena WP]
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“Old Habits Die Hard (Sometimes): Can Département Heterogeneity Tell us Something about the French Fertility Decline?,” Journal of Economic Growth , Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 177-222, 2015. [2010 IGIER WP]
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“Una de cal y otra de arena: Building Comparable Real Wages in a Global Perspective” (with R. C. Allen and E. Schneider), Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 61-75, 2015.
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“Europe’s Many Integrations: Geography and Grain Markets, 1620-1913” (with D. Chilosi, R. Studer and A. C. Tunçer), Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 46-68, 2013. [2011 IGIER WP]
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“Social Interactions and Fertility Dynamics: A Simulation Experiment in the Context of the French Fertility Decline of the Nineteenth Century” (with S. Gonzalez-Bailón), Population Studies, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 135-156, 2013. [2011 IGIER WP]
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“The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labour Market Approach” (with R. C. Allen and E. Schneider), Journal of Economic History, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 863-894, 2012. [2011 IGIER WP]
Book chapters & other publications
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“Rapid Technological Change: Past and Future,” (with T. Serebrisky, J. P. Brichetti and P. Puig) in E. Cavallo, A. Powell, and T. Serebrisky (eds.); From Structures to Service: The Path to Better Infrastructure In Latin America and the Caribbean (IDB, Washington), Ch. 5, pp. 115-142, 2020.
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“Confinement and Intimate Partner Violence: The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19,” (with M. A. Gibbons and M. A. Rossi), in S. Pérez-Vincent et al.; “COVID-19 Lockdowns and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Two Studies in Argentina,” IDB’s Institutions and Development Sector (IFD/ICS), Technical Note, No. IDB-TN-1956, 2020.
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“A Road for Prometheus: Technological Disruptions and Infrastructure Investment in History,” IDB’s Infrastructure and Energy Sector (INE/INE), Technical Note, No. IDB-TN-1872, 2020.
Working papers
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“Persistence of Malthus or Persistence in Malthus? Mortality, Income, and Marriage in the French Fertility Decline of the Long Nineteenth Century,” IGIER Working Paper, No. 363, 2010.
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“Las MIPyMES y el mercado de crédito en la Argentina,” (with G. Escudé, T. Burdisso, M. Catena, L. D’Amato, and G. McCandless), Documento de Trabajo del Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), No. 15, 2001.
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“Modelos econométricos de predicción macroeconómica en la Argentina,” (with G. McCandless and M.F. Gabrielli), Documento de Trabajo del Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), No. 19, 2001.