Accessible highlights from my July 2026 job market CV. The downloadable PDF is the complete, canonical version and includes references.
We combine match timing with spatial and temporal variation in rain-induced radio reception in Colombia. Family-oriented messages broadcast during national-team matches induced more than 1,000 FARC demobilizations, while appeals to national unity had no detectable effect. Persuasion was strongest after unexpected losses made family identity more salient.
Institute for Replication, Canada. Organizes replication games and AI Games projects on human-AI interaction and research productivity. Has led studies involving more than 700 researchers and contributed to projects involving more than 2,000; co-organized replication work that fed into publications in journals including Nature, PNAS, Psychological Science, and Nature Human Behaviour.
Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge (May 2026). Visiting Scholar, Victoria University of Wellington (December 2025).
Provides economics-research expertise for LLM training and evaluation, including task design and assessment in economic reasoning, research design, and evidence evaluation. Details subject to confidentiality.
Ongoing part-time advisory role on survey-based demand forecasting, following the position below.
CivicScience, Pittsburgh, USA. Developed demand-forecasting applications using CivicScience's real-time survey data and tested them with clients including McDonald's, Target, and Bank of America. The forecasting work later became a product line; continues as a CivicScience fellow and advisor.
Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia (Senior Consultant, Jul 2021 - Oct 2022; Postdoctoral Researcher, Jun 2022 - Jan 2023, concurrent with the final stretch of the PhD). Led EAFIT's consulting work with the Federación Nacional de Departamentos on liquor and cigarette smuggling in Colombia, resulting in the policy report listed below.
University of Western Australia. Board of the Graduate Research School Dean's List, Honourable Mention (2023).
Université catholique de Louvain.
Universidad EAFIT. Graduated with honors.
Linked paper titles where public versions are available. Journal and series names are highlighted for scanability.
With Michael Jetter. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 202, 69-81, 2022.
Large-scale collaboration (272 authors). With A. Brodeur, D. Valenta, A. Marcoci, D. Mikola, B. Barbarioli, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(22), e2524747123, 2026. Role: designed research, performed research, organized replication games, co-wrote the paper.
With John J. García Rendón. Revista de Economía del Rosario, 19(2), 2016.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/economia/a.5624
With Michael Jetter and Christopher Parsons. First and corresponding author. Revised July 2026; earlier version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 16054. Under journal review.
With Verónica Abril. Working paper.
With Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Eric Neumayer. Under journal review.
With Diana Echavarria. Working paper.
With Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, Lenka Fiala, Ghina Abdul Baki, et al. Manuscript in preparation; restricted-circulation draft, April 2026.
With Abel Brodeur, Ghina Abdul Baki, Luna Fazio, and collaborators. Manuscript in preparation; author list pending finalization, June 2026.
With Nikolai Cook, Derek Mikola, Ole Rogeberg, David Valenta, Michael Wiebe, Carl Bonander, and Abel Brodeur. The Economic Journal, 2026.
With Lenka Fiala, Jack Fitzgerald, Essi Kujansuu, Derek Mikola, David Valenta, Michael Wiebe, Matthew D. Webb, and Abel Brodeur. I4R Discussion Paper Series, 2025.
Policy report/book. EAFIT & Federación Nacional de Departamentos, 2022. Consulting engagement led by Juan P. Aparicio.
With Christopher Parsons. Work in progress.
Work in progress.
With Thomas Lloyd and María Medellín Esguerra. Work in progress.
Recent courses and selected evaluation evidence are summarized below; the dedicated teaching page includes student comments, supervision, and service.
Universidad EAFIT, 2026-II (current); also taught in 2025.
Universidad EIA, 2024.
Universidad EAFIT, 2021–2023. Student evaluation: 4.8/5.
Universidad EAFIT, 2022. Student evaluation: 4.7/5.
Selected items most relevant for academic, policy, and applied research audiences.
Co-investigator. Research on Research initiative funding to I4R, USD 187,210, 2025.
Co-investigator. Sloan Foundation funding to I4R, USD 134,784, 2025.
Board of the Graduate Research School Dean's List (Honourable Mention), postgraduate award, top-up scholarship, RTP scholarship.