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Alejandro Gaviria Uribe

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Alejandro Gaviria Uribe
Born1965
Nationality Colombia
Academic career
InstitutionUniversidad de los Andes, Fedesarrollo
Alma materUniversity of California at San Diego

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 1965) is a Colombian economist and development specialist, and current Dean of the Department of Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has received the Juan Luis Londoño de la Cuesta Medal of Honor.

Publications

Gaviria published research articles in the Journal of Development Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics, among others.

  • School-based peer effects and juvenile behavior. University of California at San Diego, Department of Economics, 1997
  • Intergenerational mobility, siblings' inequality and borrowing constraints. Discussion paper, University of California at San Diego, Department of Economics, 1998
  • Increasing returns and the evolution of violent crime: The case of Colombia. Discussion paper, University of California at San Diego, Department of Economics, 1998
  • With Rodrigo Guerrero and Juan Luis Londoño. Asalto al desarrollo: Violencia en América Latina. Inter-American Development Bank, 2000. ISBN 978-1886938861
  • Household responses to adverse income shocks in Latin America. Working paper, Inter-American Development Bank, 2001
  • Economic, social and demographic determinants of political participation in Latin America: Evidence from the 1990s. Research Department Working papers series, Inter-American Development Bank, 2002
  • With Jere R. Behrman and Miguel Székely. Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, 2003. ISBN 978-1931003421
  • With John Luke Gallup and Eduardo Lora. Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8213-5451-5
  • URIBENOMICS y otras paradojas. Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2008 ISBN 978-9584507624

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