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econ.GN2026
Comment on "The Forsaken Road: Reassessing Living Standards Following the Cuban Revolution and the American Embargo"
Francisco Rodríguez
Bastos, Geloso, and Bologna Pavlik (2026) argue that the US embargo explains less than one tenth of the difference in per capita income between Cuba and a counterfactual scenario i…
econ.GN2025
Why Bahar and Hausmann Tell Us Nothing About Venezuelan Migration Flows to the United States
Francisco Rodríguez, Giancarlo Bravo
Bahar and Hausmann (2025a) claim to find evidence against the hypothesis that oil sanctions on Venezuela lead to increased migration flows to the United States. We show that their…
econ.GN2024
Sanctions and Venezuelan Migration
Francisco Rodríguez
This paper examines the potential impact of different US economic sanctions policies on Venezuelan migration flows. I consider three possible departures from the current status quo…