David Cerero Guerra

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Graduate School Student

 

Bio:

David studies how armed actors in Latin America govern communities and how interactions between them and the state generate violent and non-violent equilibriums. More broadly, he is interested in quantitative and qualitative methods to understand violence and peace in developing contexts. He currently holds a Fulbright scholarship for graduate studies in the U.S. and is a former Fox scholar at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City.
 
Previously, he worked as a Research Associate for Innovations for Poverty Action in a project aimed at understanding gang governance conditions in low-income neighborhoods in Colombia. He worked as a Research Analyst in governance, crime, and ex-combatants projects, was a Data Adviser in the National Planning Department of Colombia, and was a Research Assistant for a World Bank and Harvard University project in developing countries.
 

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Education:

  • M.Phil. in Political Science, Yale University 
  • M.Sc. in Economics, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
  • BA in Economics, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Working Papers:

  • Cerero-Guerra, D. Testing the Waters: How Street-level Bureaucrats Respond to Criminal Actors in Mexico City.
  • Cerero-Guerra, D. Crop Prices and Violence: The Crop Substitution Effect in the Presence of Illegal Markets. 
  • Cerero-Guerra, D. Oil and Violence: A Natural Experiment on the Extensive Margin in Colombia.
  • Blattman, C., Cerero-Guerra, D., Mesa, J. & Tobón, S. Measuring the Measurement Error: Experimental Analysis of Extortion in Medellín.

Publications:

  • Blattman, C., Cerero-Guerra, D., Duncan, G., Hernandez, S., Lessing, B., Martínez, J. F., Mesa-Mejía, J. P., Montoya, H., & Tobon, S. (2022). Crimen y Covid-19: Cómo los combos de Medellín respondieron a la pandemia. En Cortés, D., Villamizar Villegas, M., & Posso Christian, C. M. Covid-19: consecuencias y desafíos en la economía colombiana. Una mirada desde las universidades. Universidad del Rosario. https://doi.org/10.12804/urosario9789587848496
  • Blattman, C., Cerero-Guerra, D., Duncan, G., Hernandez, S., Lessing, B., Martínez, J. F., Mesa-Mejía, J. P., Montoya, H., & Tobon, S. (2020). Crime in the time of covid-19: How Colombian gangs responded to the pandemic. Economic Development & Institutions COVID 19 Essay Series. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22755.99368 
  • Cerero-Guerra, D. (2014). Evaluación de Impacto de la Infraestructura recreativa y cultural en los niveles de crimen locales [Impact Evaluation of the Recreative and Cultural Infrastructure on the Local Crime Levels]. Master’s degree Thesis. Universidad de los Andes. 

Interests:

  • Fields: Political Economy and comparative politics
  • Subfields: Criminal politics and armed governance
Fields of Interest: 
Comparative Politics