Gabriel Rodríguez-Puello

PhD Candidate in Economics · Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) · On the 2026–27 job market

I use applied microeconomic and causal inference methods — including difference-in-differences, event studies, instrumental variables, and causal forests — to study how labor market shocks affect crime, fertility, and entrepreneurship.

Research fields: Labor Economics · Crime Economics · Regional Economics · Development Economics

Recent

• Labour Economics — “Diffusion of Economic Shocks in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Mining Boom” (2026)
• The Journal of Development Studies — “Socioeconomic Well-Being in the Face of Commodity Price Shocks” (2025)
• 2026 conferences: EALE (Barcelona) · ESPE (Helsinki) · WCERE (Cascais) · 2nd Berlin PhD Conference · YEM (Brno) · SOFI Seminar (Stockholm) · U. Reading Workshop