Publications

Villalobos, L., Caviglia-Harris, J., Harris, D., & Frey, E. (2026). Rural Electrification in the Brazilian Amazon: No Environment-Development Tradeoff. Land Economics (forthcoming).

Brodeur, A., et al. (2026). Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research. Nature, 652(8108), 151–156.

Villalobos, L., & Blackman, A. (2025). Air pollution and education in the Global South: Fine particulates reduce high-stakes test scores in Bogotá. Applied Economics Letters.

Blackman, A., Leguizamo, E., & Villalobos, L. (2024). Points, cells, or polygons? On the choice of spatial units in forest conservation policy impact evaluation. Environmental Research Letters.

Blackman, A., Bonilla, J. A., & Villalobos, L. (2023). Quantifying COVID-19’s silver lining: Avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 117, 102749.

Villalobos, L., Robalino, J., Sandoval, C., & Alpízar, F. (2022). Local Effects of Payments for Ecosystem Services on Rural Poverty. Environmental and Resource Economics, 1–22.

Blackman, A., & Villalobos, L. (2021). Use forests or lose them? Regulated timber extraction and tree cover loss in Mexico. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(1), 125–163.

Blackman, A., & Villalobos, L. (2019). Clear, but don’t invest: protected areas discourage some land uses more than others. Environmental Research Letters, 14(10), 104002.

Villalobos, L., Coria, J., & Nordén, A. (2018). Has forest certification reduced forest degradation in Sweden? Land Economics, 94(2), 220–238.

Robalino, J., Pfaff, A., & Villalobos, L. (2017). Heterogeneous local spillovers from protected areas in Costa Rica. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 4(3), 795–820.

Robalino, J., & Villalobos, L. (2015). Protected areas and economic welfare: an impact evaluation of national parks on local workers' wages in Costa Rica. Environment and Development Economics, 20(3), 283–310.

Blackman, A., Leguízamo, E., & Villalobos, L. (2026). Choosing Spatial Units for Geospatial Impact Evaluation. In Geospatial Impact Evaluation (forthcoming).

Damgaard, M. T., Gravert, C., & Villalobos, L. (2018). Forgetful or Reluctant? Evidence on Reminder Response and Donor Behavior from Panel Data (pp. 219–238). CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press.

Robalino, J., Pfaff, A., & Villalobos, L. (2012). Assessing the impact of institutional design of payments for environmental services: the Costa Rican experience. In Ecosystem Services from Agriculture and Agroforestry (pp. 339–352). Routledge.