David Escamilla-Guerrero is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews. He completed his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2020. During 2019-2020, David held the Rokos Junior Research Fellowship in Economics at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
His research interests are at the intersection of labor economics, economic history, and development economics, with a focus on Latin America. Currently, David is conducting research on (1) the impact of European immigration on agricultural development in Brazil; (2) the effect of local minimum wages on women's fertility and motherhood timing in Mexico; and (3) the short- and long-run effects of transportation infrastructure on Mexico-US migration.
He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in May 2023.
