Professor Jose Galdo two recent papers published

“The long-run labor-market impacts of civil war: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru”

(forthcoming: Economic Development and Cultural Change)

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. This study finds that the most sensitive period to early-life exposure to civil war violence is the first 36 months of life. A one standard deviation increase in civil war exposure leads to a five percent fall in adult monthly earnings. Overall, forced disappearances emerge as the most hurtful measure of violence in the long-run. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that short-run health, along with schooling and household wealth, are important channels in connecting early-life exposure to civil war and adult earnings.

“Does the quality of public-sponsored training programs matter? Evidence from bidding processes data”   

(forthcoming: Labour Economics, co-authored with Alberto Chong).

This paper analyzes the link between training quality and labor-market outcomes. We find that beneficiaries attending high-quality training courses show higher earnings and better job-quality characteristics than either beneficiaries attending low-quality courses or nonparticipants. The returns are particularly robust for women, making the provision of high-quality training services cost-effective. Furthermore, the most important training attribute is expenditures per trainee. Class size and infrastructure are weakly related to the expected impacts, while teacher experience, curricular activities, and market knowledge seem to bear no relationship with the expected impacts.