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_! 🎉

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? Thread below 👇

✨I’m on the job market! ✨ My JMP asks: Can grassroots institutions shape what people value and, by doing so, alter life trajectories? Do these internalized norms persist across space, time, and generations? We often treat preferences as given. I study whether this is the

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. https://t.co/kfIMdU9vnp

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! 🇨🇴🇧🇷🇵🇪

“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)

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.

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

And now @hparedes_c on the impact of haciendas on development in Peru

@deanyang @karsha @jorgeghombrados @ViolaAsri @warwickecon 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.”

@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.

@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.

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!

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. →

Si el poder y la memoria han forjado la identidad latinoamericana del siglo XX, la conversación en ese pequeño bar del centro de Lima sea tal vez su reflejo más profundo. (2/2)

Al final del día, MVLL fue alguien que amó profundamente la literatura, y al Perú. Creciendo en la misma ciudad, siempre fue inevitable leer como familiares lugares, momentos y ausencias comunes. (1/2)

Kick-starting '25 conference season! Very much looking forward to the incoming Applied Econ Meeting at @BristolUniECon! Great program & bonus track: two papers on rural Peru sharing one session😎@npguerrerot. Many thanks to @EL_Guarnieri & @TomanBarsbai for the invitation!

Wrapping up an amazing chapter visiting @ubcVSE-new ideas, stories, & friends! The list is long but special thanks to @claudferraz for incredible hosting, to @felipev84 for long talks on history, films & LatAm, and to @DrNathanNunn for great multidisciplinary course discussions.

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