About me

Hello! Thank you for visiting my personal website. My name is Alejandro Arciniegas Herrera. I am currently a first year PhD candidate in Economics at the Sorbonne Economics Centre attached to Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne University. I am under the supervision of Prof. Léa Marchal.

My research explores how environmental shocks and policy interventions shape livelihoods and agricultural outcomes in Latin America. In my first chapter, I analyze how drops in food security push families to migrate in the Venezuelan case. I combine fine scale information on crop loss with local emigration records. My second chapter examines Colombia’s Law 70, which gave collective land titles to Afro-Colombian communities. I see its influence on poverty through losses in agricultural production and forest protection. Chapter three uses satellite imagery and CNNs to map seasonal crop production in Colombia and study the effects of convective storms.

I hold an M.Phil in Development Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Javeriana University (Bogotá, Colombia). Do not hesitate to get in contact with me if you have any cool projects or questions I could help answer!