If you are interested in reading one of my gated papers, contact me at a.ham [at] uniandes [dot] edu [dot] co
2025
“Promoting in-person attendance for early childhood services to low income families after the COVID-19 pandemic using text messages” with Juanita Ruiz, Oscar Iván Pineda-Diaz, Natalia Iriarte-Tovar, Juan Sebastián Cifuentes, María Fernanda Rodríguez-Camacho, and Laura Feliza Vélez. Economía LACEA Journal, 24(1): 146-165. Open Access. [Ungated Working Paper version] [Pre-Analysis Plan].
“Characterizing green and carbon-intensive employment in India“, with Emmanuel Vazquez and Mónica Yanez-Pagans. Ecological Economics, 236, 108695, October 2025. [Ungated Working Paper version]
- Featured in World Bank blog “End Poverty in South Asia”.
“An application of LASSO and multiple imputation techniques to income dynamics with cross-sectional data”, with Leonardo Lucchetti, Paul Corral-Rodas, and Santiago Garriga. The Review of Income And Wealth, 71(1), e12693 , February. [Ungated Working Paper Version]
2024
“Colombia in Motion 2010-2013-2016-2019: Migration phenomena”, with Arturo Harker, Stephanie Majerowicz, Douglas Newball, and Nicolás González Llano (in Spanish). Chapter 5 in L. Fergusson Talero A.M. Díaz, and J.E. Sánchez Guevara (compilers), Una década de Colombia en Movimiento: 2010-2019. Una mirada a los hogares a partir de la Encuesta Longitudinal de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, Ediciones Uniandes.
“The short-term effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala”, with Emmanuel Vazquez and Monica Yanez-Pagans. Open Access. Education Economics. [Ungated Working Paper version]
“How accurately are household surveys measuring the LGBT population in Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment”, with Ángela Guarín and Juanita Ruiz. Open Access. Labour Economics, 87, 102503, Part of Special Issue The Economic and Labour Market Position of Sexual Minorities in Developing Countries, edited by Erik Plug, Samuel Berlinski, and Veronica Frisancho. [Ungated Working Paper version] [Policy Brief in Spanish] [Replication files]
- Featured in Foco Económico (April 2023, In Spanish).
2022
“Reducing Alcohol-Related Violence with Bartenders: A Behavioral Field Experiment“, with Darío Maldonado, Michael Weintraub, Andrés Felipe Camacho, and Daniela Gualtero. Open Access. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 41(3): 731-761. [Ungated Working Paper version] [Pre-Analysis Plan]
2021
“Recent patterns and trends in the youth labor market in Colombia: Diagnosis and public policy challenges” with Darío Maldonado and Carlos S. Guzmán-Gutiérrez. Open Access. IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 11(7). [Ungated Working Paper versions in Spanish & English]
- Featured in Foco Económico (Feb 2020, In Spanish).
2020
“Social and Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Policy Options for Honduras”. Chapter 2 in The Socio-Economic Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ideas for Policy Action (Volume 2: Country Notes), Luis Felipe López-Calva and Marcela Meléndez (editors). Open Access. United Nations Development Programme. [English and Spanish versions]
“Association between social pensions with depression, social and health behaviors among poor older individuals in Colombia” with Philipp Hessel, Lina Bermeo, Laura López, Monica Pinilla-Roncancio, and Catalina González-Uribe. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (Social Sciences), 75(5): 968-973.
2019
“Information Policies and Higher Education Choices: Experimental Evidence from Colombia” with Leonardo Bonilla and Nicolas Bottan. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 83, 101468. [Ungated Working Paper version]
- Featured in the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog (Jul 2016).
2018
“Does the form of delivering incentives in conditional cash transfers matter over a decade later?” with Hope C. Michelson. Journal of Development Economics, 134:96-108. 2018. [Ungated Working Paper version]
- Featured in the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog (May 2018).
“Predicting School Dropout with Administrative Data: New Evidence from Guatemala and Honduras” with Melissa Adelman, Francisco Haimovich, and Emmanuel Vázquez. Education Economics, 26(4):356-372. [Ungated Working Paper version]
- Featured in the World Bank’s Research Digest (Fall 2017).
“The Consequences of Legal Minimum Wages in Honduras”. World Development, 102:135-157.
- Featured in the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog (Nov 2016).
2015
“Minimum Wage Violations in Honduras”. IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 4(1):1-19. Open Access.
2014
“The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Educational Inequality of Opportunity”. Latin American Research Review, 49(3):153-175.
“Migration Patterns in Honduras: Evolution, Trends, and Socioeconomic Impact” with Aldo Martínez M. Revista de Economía & Administración, 11(1):85-114, In Spanish. Open Access,
2012
“Assessing the Predictive Power of Vulnerability Measures: Evidence from Panel Data for Argentina and Chile” with Marcelo Bérgolo and Guillermo Cruces. Journal of Income Distribution, 21(1):28-64.
2011
“Inequality and Poverty in Honduras: A Descriptive Analysis of the Last Twenty Years”. Revista Centroamericana de Ciencias Sociales, VIII(2):123-165, In Spanish.
2010
“The Many Faces of Poverty: Quantifying the Deprivation Costs of the 2001-2002 Crisis in Argentina” with Adriana Conconi. Económica, LVI(January-December):39-77.
“Well-being at the sub-city level: The Buenos Aires Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey” with Guillermo Cruces and Martín Tetaz. Chapter 4 in The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception. A co-publication of the IADB and The World Bank.
Andrés Ham 