Julio A. Ramos Pastrana

Impact Evaluation Consultant. Inter-American Development Bank

External Faculty Affiliate. Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University

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Research Interests : Impact Evaluation, Health Economics, Development Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Political Economy

Publications

Who’s Getting the Office: Party Dominance and Elected Executives Career Path
Julio A. Ramos Pastrana
Kyklos, 74(2): 270-297. 2021

The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations
Lee J. Alston, Marie Duggan and Julio A. Ramos Pastrana
Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2(4): 527-551. 2022 NBER SSRN

“Finding Fraud: Enforcement, Detection, and Recoveries after the ACA”, Victoria Perez and Julio A. Ramos Pastrana
International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 23: 393-409. 2023

“Hit From Abroad: Party Dominance and the Fiscal Response to External Economic Shocks” - Online First, Economics & Politics SSRN

“Do Political Hawks Prioritize Different Policies Than Technocrats? Politicization and Governors’ Spending Priorities”, jointy with Johabed G. Olvera and Claudia N. Avellaneda - Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy

“Interest Groups, Partisan Politics, and Environmental Polarization”, jointly with Dean Lueck and Gustavo Torrens - Forthcoming at Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
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“The Institutional Legacy of the Mexican Rancho System in California”, jointly with Dean Lueck - Accepted at Journal of Law & Economics

“Opioid Prescribing Restrictions and Homelessness: Evidence from Hydrocodone Rescheduling”, jointly with Johabed G. Olvera, Felipe Lozano-Rojas, and Sumedha Gupta - Conditionally accepted at Journal of Housing Economics

Working Papers

“Improving Maternal and Infant Health Through Prenatal Care Home Visits”, jointly with Johabed G. Olvera - Revisions resubmitted at Journal of Population Economics

“The Accountability Effect of Term Limits on Local Government Performance: Performative Signaling of Governmental Action”, jointly with Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez - Revisions requested at Local Government Studies

“Moving for Welfare: The Effect of ACA Medicaid Expansion on Homelessness”, jointly with Johabed Olvera and Hilary Wething - Submitted

“The effect of asymmetric regulation on market competition: the case of 2013 Telecomm Reform in Mexico”, jointly with Rodrigo Alcázar Silva - Submitted

“Unveiling Disparities: A Study on Wage Gaps Among Public and Private Employees”, jointly with Victoria Perez - Submitted

Work in Progress

“Reelection Incentives, Political Budget Cycles and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Mexico’s Local Governments”, jointly with Gustavo Torrens

“Economic and Ideological Motivations of Bureaucrats Decision-Making: Evidence from Brazil”, jointly with Paula Rettl, Anthony Bertelli, and Tainá Souza

“The Economic Effect of Dominant-Party Alternation in Mexican States”, jointly with Francisco A. Castellanos-Sosa

Courses Taught

Instructor:

Economic Analysis for Public Policy (PPOL 802), Penn State University (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

Public Policy Analysis (PPOL 809), Penn State University (Spring 2021)

Political Economy (ECON 407), Penn State University (Spring 2022)

Policy and Program Evaluation (PPOL 810), Penn State University (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)

Statistics for Public Policy II (PPOL 506), Penn State University (Spring 2023)

Teaching Assistant:

Theory of Prices and Markets I (Microeconomics 1st year PhD sequence course), Indiana University (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)

Theory of Prices and Markets II (Microeconomics 1st year PhD sequence course), Indiana University (Spring 2016, Spring 2019)

Introduction to Microeconomics, Indiana University (Fall 2015)