About Me
I am an Economics PhD student at UCLA working in industrial organization and development economics. Before UCLA, I was a predoctoral research fellow at Stanford’s SIEPR, where I worked on the Guestworker Migration Initiative. I hold a B.A. in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
- Industrial Organization
- Development Economics
PhD in Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. in Economics
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Research
Working Papers
Morten, M., Magaloni, B., Cubillos, S., Wang, A. Y. (2026). The Returns to Temporary Migration: Experimental Evidence from the H-2A Program. NBER Working Paper No. 35941.
Stanford Guestworker Migration Initiative
Work in Progress
Cubillos, S. (2026). From Tariffs to Producer Returns: Sales Allocation under Import Competition.
Pre-PhD Publications
Cubillos-Rocha, J. S., Gamboa-Arbelaez, J., Melo-Velandia, L. F., Restrepo-Tamayo, S., Roa-Garcia, M. J., Villamizar-Villegas, M. (2021). Effects of interest rate caps on credit access. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 60, 117–139.
Cubillos-Rocha, J. S., Gomez-Gonzalez, J. E., Melo-Velandia, L. F. (2019). Detecting exchange rate contagion using copula functions. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 47, 13–22.
Cubillos-Rocha, J. S., Melo-Velandia, L. F. (2018). Asymptotically unbiased inference for a panel VAR model with p lags. Borradores de Economía Working Paper No. 1059.