Juan David Torres
Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020 (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, and Santiago Pérez). American Economic Review: Insights Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2024
Social Learning and Technological Change: American Agricultural Fairs (September 2025).
(2025 Sean Buckley Memorial Award for Best Second-Year Paper, Stanford University, Department of Economics)
Bourbon Reforms, State Capacity, and Revolution in the Spanish Empire (with Giorgio Chiovelli, Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis Martinez, and Felipe Valencia) Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
The Market for Deference (with Anna Vdovina)
Funded by Stanford King Center
Enlightenment for the Masses? Almanac-Making and the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Pre-PhD Research
Urban Wage Gaps in Colombia and the Impact of a National Payroll Tax Policy (with Paula Herrera-Idárraga and Pablo Adrián Garlati). 2021. Regional Studies, 1-15.
Shaping Inequality? Property Rights, Landed Elites and Public Lands in Colombia. Cede Working Paper No. 2022-40. Universidad de los Andes (October 2022).
Cambio Estructural y Dinámica Macroeconómica: Los Retos Colombianos (with José Antonio Ocampo). (2022). In José Antonio Ocampo & María Fernanda Valdez (Eds.), Políticas de desarrollo productivo: una agenda para el futuro (pp. 31-62). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).
El Papel de la Banca de Desarrollo en la Promoción de la Innovación (with José Antonio Ocampo). (2022). In José Antonio Ocampo & María Fernanda Valdez (Eds.), Políticas de desarrollo productivo: una agenda para el futuro (pp. 223-266). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).
La Banca Nacional de Desarrollo en Colombia (with José Antonio Ocampo and Paola Arias). 2018. Ensayos sobre Política Económica, 88, 1-36.
Putting the Eggs in Multiple Baskets: Export Promotion in Colombia During the 1960s (2018).
Manejo y Resultados de la Bonanza Petrolera (with José Antonio Ocampo). Economía Colombiana. No. 353, Agosto-Septiembre de 2018.