Economic History, Development and Data Viz

Dante Gerardo Sanchez Torres

Ph.D. Development Economics

(The Fusion of Two Cultures 1960, MNH)

Collection of colonial data

Welcome to my personal website

I'm a Data Scientist at UNHCR. Previously, I worked for the Mexican government and different UN development agencies. My research interests cover economic history, crisis and development. I am passionate about data science, with a focus on the intersection of spatial analysis and economics.

I did my Ph.D. in development economics at the

Geneva Graduate Institute

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Resources

Packages and Data

R functions for fuzzy nested matching and other utilities

Teaching

Here is a link to my latest material

Presentations

Some old presentations

Links

Relevant Causal Inference and Machine Learning material

Article
Confinment and domestic violence: A bayesian structural time series approach
Article
Poverty and inequality under Covid-19
Blog post
GIS transformation of colonial data
Working paper
Married with children? Impact of income shocks on family arrangements
Work in progress
Colonial legacy and the construction of the Mexican education system
Work in progress
Violence and childlabor: ramifications of the war on Drugs in Mexico

Contact information

Any questions, suggestions and comments, you can reach me by email or through my different social media accounts:

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