Latest research updates:

New working paper: "The First Numbers of the Americas," joint with José Antonio Espín-Sánchez is available here. Listen to the podcast on Ceteris Paribus (in Spanish) here. 
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"The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Long-Term Development in Peru." has finally been accepted at the Journal of Economic Growth.

"Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America," Explorations in Economic History, 93.

​Vox featured my research on development and colonialism. 

 My scholarship looks at economic growth and development in historical perspective. 


Political economy
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Maurer. 2025. "The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Long-Term Development in Peru," Journal of Economic Growth.
               Blog post at Broadstreet and video interview at Faculti
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Maurer. 2024. "Does Time Heal All Wounds? The Rise, Decline, and Long-term Impact of Forced Labor in Spanish America," Explorations in Economic History. CEPR working paper 16467.
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Maurer. 2022. "An Imperial Accident: Property Rights in the Philippines under U.S. Rule, 1902-39,"  Journal of Historical Political Economy 2(2): 235-261.
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Maurer. 2021. "When Interventions Fail: Lessons from the U.S. experience in Latin America". CEPR working paper.
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Maurer. 2021. "History Never Really Says Goodbye: A Critical Review of the Persistence Literature". Journal of Historical Political Economy 1(1): 31-68. 
Arroyo Abad, L., and N. Maurer.  "Do Pandemics Shape Elections? Retrospective voting in the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in the United States". CEPR Discussion Paper 15678.
                Blog post at Broadstreet, Nada Es Gratis, cited at 538, VoxEU
​Arroyo Abad, L. 2016. "The Limits of the Estado Docente: Education and Political Participation in Peru, 1876-1940." Journal of Latin American and Iberian Economic History 34 (1): 81-109. 
Maurer, N. and L. Arroyo Abad. "Could Europe Run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-34," working paper.

Migration
Arroyo Abad, L., J. A. Espín Sánchez, Y. Spitzer, and A. Zimran,  "Gambling for America: The First Wave of Migration to the Americas, 1492-1540," working paper.
Arroyo Abad, L. and J. A. Espín Sánchez, "The First Numbers of America," CEPR working paper.
Arroyo Abad, L. and J. A. Espín Sánchez, "The Making of the Americas," working paper.
                 See blog post at Broadstreet
Arroyo Abad, L., N. Maurer and B. Sánchez-Alonso. 2021. "Paesani versus paisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration." Economic History Review, 74(2): 546-567.
                Blog post at the Economic History Society.
Arroyo Abad, L. and B. Sánchez-Alonso. 2018. "A City of Trades: Spanish and Italian Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires, Argentina." Cliometrica 12: 343-376.
                Summary at Positive Check European Historical Economics Society


Economic growth and development
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Palma. 2021. "The Fruits of El Dorado: The Global Impact of American Precious Metals", in Globalization and the Early Modern Era: An Iberian Perspective, eds. R. Dobado and A. Garcia-Hiernaux, Palgrave. [EHES working paper]  [CEPR working paper] [Summary @Portuguese Economic Journal]
Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden. 2016. "Growth under Extractive Institutions? GDP per capita in Latin America since Colonial Times". Journal of Economic History 76 (4): 1182-1215.
Arroyo Abad L. and A. Santos-Paulino. 2013. "Trading Development? Trade, Policies, and Effects in the Dominican Republic in Historical Perspective." Revista Historia Caribe 9 (22): 209-239.
Maurer, N. and L. Arroyo Abad. "Could Europe Run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-34," working paper.
Arroyo Abad, L., and N. Maurer. "The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Labor Institutions in Long-Term Development in Peru," working paper.
Arroyo Abad, L. 2013. "Argentina". Encyclopedia of Emerging Markets.


Inequality
Arroyo Abad, L. and N. Maurer. "Inequality in Argentina during the Belle Epoque," working paper.
Arroyo Abad, L. and P. Lindert. 2017. "Fiscal Redistribution in the Americas since the Mid-Nineteenth Century" in Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?  edited by L. Bertola and J. Williamson, 243-282.
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Arroyo Abad, L. and P. Astorga. 2016. "Latin American Inequality in the Long Run." Cliometrica 11(3): 349-374.
Arroyo Abad, L. 2013. “Persistent Inequality? Trade, Factor Endowments, and Inequality in Republican Latin America.” Journal of Economic History 73 (1), 38-78.
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Living standards
Arroyo Abad, L. and K. Gary. 2023. "A Window to the Past: Living Standards in Historical Perspective," Handbook of Cliometrics, edited by Claude Diebolt, Michael Haupert.
Arroyo Abad, L., E. Davis, and J. L. van Zanden. 2012. "Between Conquest and Independence: Living Standards in Spanish Latin America." Explorations in Economic History 49 (2): 149-166.
               Discussed in Clionomia, Revista América Latina, and NEP-HIS Blog 
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Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden. 2015. "Optimistic but Flawed? A Reply." Journal of Latin American and Iberian Economic History 33 (1): 77-82.
Arroyo Abad, L. 2013. "Inestabilidad, Bienestar Económico y Costo de Vida en Venezuela durante el siglo XIX." América Latina en la Historia Económica 20 (3): 114-137. 
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Arroyo Abad, L. 2014. "Failure to Launch: Cost of Living and Living Standards in Peru during the 19th century." Journal of Latin American and Iberian Economic History 32 (1): 47-76.
Arroyo Abad, L. 2016. "Despegue frustrado: Costo de vida y estándares de vida en el Peru en el siglo XIX." Economia 78: 119-148.
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Incursion(s) into philosophy
Arroyo Abad, L. and K. Khalifa. 2015. "What are Stylized Facts?". Journal of Economic Methodology 22 (2): 143-156.