Thrilled to share that my paper “The Rise and Persistence of Illegal Crops: Evidence from a Naive Policy Announcement” (RESTAT 2023, with M.Prem and @DanielMejiaL) won the 2026 @ISSDrugPolicy Excellence in Research Award for the strongest contribution to drug policy analysis. 🥳
Armed and criminal groups in Colombia systematically identify vulnerable children as young as 11 or 12 and target them with what they are missing: food, affection, belonging, protection.
Learn more in our @CrisisGroup report https://t.co/CAXkkOiKRT
Today in Colombia, it is impossible to talk about the nature of armed conflict without understanding that there are children being forced to participate in every part of it
🧵on our new @CrisisGroup report & how generalized child recruitment has become
https://t.co/CAXkkOjiHr
EN: Thrilled to announce that my paper with @SilvioRRendon , "Labor Market Effects of Bounds on Domestic Outsourcing," has been accepted in the Journal of Development Economics! https://t.co/pTd3RBdMWO
🆕 Green trade policy for palm oil
Today on VoxDev, @AllanHsiao (@PrincetonEcon@PrincetonSPIA@PrincetonDevo) outlines how green trade policy for palm oil can greatly reduce emissions for an industry that is pivotal in the fight against climate change: https://t.co/fKW6dpLImw
One understudied human cost of conflict is the victimization from antipersonnel landmines, which are hidden underground and remain active for decades. This implies that victimization will persist after the end of a conflict in the absence of comprehensive demining (1/n)
EN: Excited to share the publication of my new paper in Labour Economics, which explores the impact of minimum wages on government approval and labor market outcomes in Peru. @eale_sbe https://t.co/2IDtVVKHU6