Research
My work is based on almost twenty years of experience working with Latin Americans: in the US, on the US/Mexico border, in southern Mexico, and in northern Peru. The work on agricultural value chains is based mainly on fieldwork in Chiapas. The work on structural transformation is based on harmonized data from the Mexico census that I obtained from IPUMS and confidental employer-employee data from the EconLab at the Bank of Mexico. The work on Catholic Social Teaching has come from reflecting on my work as an economist in light of my own faith tradition.
Here is my research statement.
Agricultural Value Chains
Working Papers
Unpacking Side-Selling: Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico (with Chris Boyd Leon and Grant Storer) | Draft. R&R at Agricultural Economics.
Work in Progress
Information decay and technology adoption under risk (with Grant Storer and Jesse Anttila-Hughes).
Book Chapters
The role of the farmer and their cooperative in supply chain governance: a Latin American small producer perspective. 2023. Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals | Ungated Version
Value Chain Integration as an Alternative to Fair Trade for Chiapas Coffee Farmers. 2019. Entrepreneurship and Development in the 21st Century.
This article is a revised version of my master’s thesis, which is available open access from the USF thesis repository.
Structural Transformation
Work in Progress
Where You Go Depends on Who you Know: The Effect of Social Networks on Mexican Internal Migration (with Alejandro Estefan) | Very Old Draft.
It’s All About Who You Know: Social Networks and Job Turnover in Mexico (with Lorenzo Aldeco).