Distribution, Political Economy

Economic History, Development Economics, Labor Economics

Melissa Rubio is a Postdoc at the University of Cologne. She studied Economics at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. In 2020, she received her PhD in Economics at the University of Gothenburg.

Published papers

• Trust, Violence, and Coca

  Rubio-Ramos, M. (2023). Trust, Violence, and Coca. Journal of Development Economics.

Discussion papers

• Murphy’s Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts

• From Plantations to Prisons: The Race Gap in Incarceration After the Abolition of Slavery in the U.S.

• Trust, Violence, and Coca

Policy briefs

• Murphy’s Law versus the luck of the Irish: Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th-century courts