David Escamilla-Guerrero
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Work in Progress
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1. The effects of immigration in a developing country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
with Andrea Papadia and Ariell Zimran
IZA Discussion Paper 16741, January 2024 · NBER Working Paper 32083, May 2024 (Revised)
Media coverage: VoxDev · Cato Institute
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​2. All aboard! Railroad access and Mexico-US mass migration
Prepared for the volume "Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean"
edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo
OESH Working Paper 212, October 2024
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​3. Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: Evidence from Canada-US migration
with Chris Minns and Miko Lepisto
IZA Discussion Paper 16461, September 2023 · OESH Working Paper 214, January 2025 (Revised)
Collecting additional data
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4. Minimum wages and gender inequality in the long run: Evidence from Mexico
with Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos and Valeria Rueda
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5. The impact of foreign language skills on migration and labor market dynamics
with Raissa Fabregas and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano
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Publications
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1. The impact of violence during the Mexican Revolution on migration to the United States
with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward
Journal of Development Economics, Forthcoming
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​2. Minimum eligibility age for social pensions and household poverty: Evidence from Mexico
with Clemente Ávila-Parra and Oscar Gálvez-Soriano
Economic Inquiry, January 2024
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3. Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907
with Moramay López-Alonso
Journal of Economic History, January 2023
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4. Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration
with Ed Kosack and Zach Ward
Explorations in Economic History, October 2021
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Historical Methods, April 2020​
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Other Publications
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1. Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economy
Economic History Review, July 2021 (Book Review)​
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2. Cliometric essays on Mexican migration to the United States
Ph.D. Thesis, London School of Economics, January 2020
2022 Dissertation Prize Finalist, International Economic History Association​​