Andrés Felipe Camacho

2025

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   Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross-national analysis

   Jorge Cuartas, Laura H. Balza, Andrés Camacho, and 1 more author

   Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Dec 2025

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   This study examines the relationship between ambient heat exposure and early childhood development outcomes across multiple countries, providing evidence of how climate-related factors may impact child development and cognitive outcomes. The analysis reveals how temperature affects the Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) on-track percentages, with notable impacts at different temperature thresholds.

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   High temperatures and violent child punishment at home: Evidence from six countries

   Jorge Cuartas, and Andrés Camacho

   Psychology of Violence, Jan 2025

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   This study examines the relationship between high temperatures and violent child punishment at home across six countries, providing evidence of how climate-related factors may impact child welfare and family dynamics.

2022

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   Reducing Alcohol-Related Violence with Bartenders: A Behavioral Field Experiment

   Andrés Ham, Darío Maldonado, Michael Weintraub, and 2 more authors

   Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Jan 2022

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   Abstract This paper evaluates the randomized Good Drinks program in four localities of Bogotá, Colombia. The intervention encourages bartenders to adopt standardized practices that promote responsible behavior in terms of alcohol consumption with the goal of reducing alcohol-related violence and was implemented in cooperation with Colombia’s largest brewery and the city’s Secretariat of Security, Coexistence, and Justice. Tracing out the relationship between alcohol consumption and violence is useful because alcohol-related incidents often lead to more serious crimes. Our experimental design allows estimating direct and spillover effects on reported incidents within and around bars. Results show that bartenders in treatment locations sell more water and food, thus contributing to more responsible behavior by patrons. However, we find no direct or spillover effects of these changes in consumption on brawls five months after the program, but some improvement on other alcohol-related incidents. The experience of the Good Drinks program provides a better understanding of three aspects related to alcohol regulation and policy: (i) the role bartenders can play to curb excessive alcohol consumption and promote good behavior among customers, (ii) a practical experience of using less restrictive interventions for alcohol regulation, and (iii) the value of public-private partnerships.

   @article{https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22365,
     author = {Ham, Andrés and Maldonado, Darío and Weintraub, Michael and Camacho, Andrés Felipe and Gualtero, Daniela},
     title = {Reducing Alcohol-Related Violence with Bartenders: A Behavioral Field Experiment},
     journal = {Journal of Policy Analysis and Management},
     volume = {41},
     number = {3},
     pages = {731-761},
     keywords = {alcohol, bartenders, brawls, alcohol-related violence, regulation},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22365},
     url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pam.22365},
     eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pam.22365},
     year = {2022},
     dimensions = {true},
   }