Applied Economics Ph.D.
Publications
1. Urdiales, M. P., López-Luzuriaga, A., Castillo-Castillo, A., & Ribeiro, B. C. (2025). Fragmentation, scale, and management: Determinants of public spending efficiency in colombia’s water and sanitation sector. Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank.
2. Castillo-Castillo, A., El-Khatabbi, A., & Ramírez, J. (2025). A spatial-temporal analysis of the efficiency in water investment in colombia and its consequences in drinking water safeness. Environmental Research Letters, 20(3).
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb0e0
3. Castillo-Castillo, A., Keeler, B., Lonsdorf, E., Walker, R., & Ramer, H. (2025). Race and income moderate the
effect of parks on housing prices in a segregated city. Landscape and Urban Planning, 259, 105340. https:
//doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105340
4. Derickson, K., Walker, R., Hamann, M., Anderson, P., Adegun, O. B., Castillo-Castillo, A., Guerry, A., Keeler, B.,
Llewellyn, L., Matheney, A., Mogosetsi-Gabriel, N., Mundoli, S., Pahwa Gajjar, S., Sitas, N., & Xie, L. (2024). The
intersection of justice and urban greening: Future directions and opportunities for research and practice. Urban
Forestry and Urban Greening, 95, Article 128279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128279
5. Castillo-Castillo, A. (2023). Safe drinking water at the kitchen tap. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA),
Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships (RSDP), and Minnesota Well Owners Organization (MNWOO)-
University of Minnesota.
6. Swedberg, K., Cardoso, D., Castillo-Castillo, A., Boyle, K., Nolte, C., Phaneuf, D., & Polasky, S. (2023). Spatial heterogeneity in hedonic price effects for lake water quality. Land Economics. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.1.102122-0086R
7. Mamun, S., Castillo-Castillo, A., Swedberg, K., Zhang, J., Boyle, K. J., Cardoso, D., & Polasky, S. (2023). Valuing water quality in the united states using a national dataset on property values. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15), e2210417120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210417120
8. Alemán, X., Insfrán, S., & Castillo, A. (2015). Youth pregnancy in latin america (Technical Note IDB-TN-1441). Inter-American Development Bank. https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Youth-Pregnancy-in-Latin-America.pdf
9. Palacios, I., Gaitán, B., Valderrama, D., Castillo, A., Ardila, L., & Cantor, N. (2011). Count to sustainable development goals 2015. Facultad de Administración, Universidad del Rosario; Gobernación del Huila.
10. Villaveces, J., Rodríguez, P., Ávila, O., Bárcenas, E., Bermúdez, A., Bocanegra, D., Camargo, D., Castillo, A., Córdoba, H., Miranda, M., Montenegro, C., Moreno, D., Otálora, A., Ortegón, P., Piñeros, C., Prieto, D., & Rangel, P. (2011). Economic cartoons: A look at colombian economic history (No. 97; Borradores de Investigación). Universidad del Rosario, Facultad de Economía.
Publications in Preparation
1. Castillo-Castillo, A. (2025). On government, guerrilla and water resources in a post-conflict scenario.
2. Perez-Urdinales, A., María; Castillo-Castillo. (2025). Public expenditure review – Colombia: Water and sanitation sector.
3. Perez-Urdinales, M. et al. (2025). Efficiency of public spending of the water and sanitation sector in Colombia.
4. Castillo-Castillo, A., & Vela, M. (2025). Corruption and water quality in Colombia: Changes over time and space.