Research
My research focuses on migration, entrepreneurship, and political economy, with an emphasis on how institutions, policy environments, and economic incentives influence individual behavior and long-run development outcomes.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Emigration and origin country economic institutions
with Benjamin Powell | Public Choice, 2025
Property rights and entrepreneurship
Economic Affairs, 45(3), 509–521, 2025
Revise & Resubmit
Did the Syrian Refugee Crisis impact European economic freedom?
with Benjamin Powell | R&R at the Journal of Comparative Economics
Under Review
Debt Constraints in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Guatemala
Under review at Public Finance Review
Working Papers
Ideology and Economic Freedom: Causal Estimates from 150 Years of Data
with J.P. Bastos and Benjamin Powell
From Das Kapital to Venture Capital: Cuban Entrepreneurial Elites Exiled in South Florida
with Carlos Martinez
Do corruption reforms spur entrepreneurship?
Referee Service
Public Choice · Journal of New Finance