Gabriel Rodríguez-Puello
PhD Candidate in Economics · Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) · On the 2026–27 job market
I am an applied microeconomist studying how economic shocks and changes in economic opportunities affect labor markets, crime, and entrepreneurship, with applications in Europe and Latin America. My job market paper uses Swedish administrative data and a mining boom to show that improved labor market opportunities reduced property crime among young men but increased substance-related offenses. My work combines causal inference methods, including difference-in-differences, event studies, instrumental variables, and causal forests, with large administrative datasets.
Research fields: Labor Economics · Economics of Crime · Development Economics
Recent
- Resource and Energy Economics — R&R for “Investment Freedom: Mining for (Critical) Raw Minerals in Developing Countries”
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization — R&R for “Local Economic Shocks and Entrepreneurship Dynamics”
- 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: Evidence from Chile” (2025)
- 2026 conferences: EALE (Barcelona) · EEA (Dublin) · SOFI Seminar (Stockholm) · 2nd Berlin PhD Conference · YEM (Brno) · RSA Conference (Gothenburg) · AMIE Workshop (Online) · Virtual Crime Economics (ViCE) Seminar (Online) · 9th Swedish Conference in Economics (Jönköping) · SWEGPEC Annual Workshop (Linköping)
