Hector Botello

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (Expected: Spring 2026)
  • Major Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Luckstead
  • Specialization: Social protection policies, poverty reduction, and labor market outcomes
• Master in Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (Expected: Fall 2025)
  • Focus: Econometric methods for policy evaluation and panel data analysis
• Master in Economic Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia (April 2019)
• Bachelor of Economics (Cum Laude), Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia (June 2012)

Research Interests

• Primary Fields: Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics
• Secondary Fields: Development Economics, Gender Economics, Policy Evaluation

Working Papers

• Job Market Paper: “Vaccination and Employment: Causal Evidence from Peru’s COVID-19 Mandate”
  • Abstract: Vaccination increased the probability of Labor Force Participation (LFP) by an average of 19.1 percentage points in Peru, a country with high informality and a strict COVID-19 mandate. The paper uses a recursive bivariate probit model with conservative ideology as an instrumental variable.

Publications

• Botello, H. (2025). The Evidence From Internet Access and COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions in Peru. International Social Science Journal, 1-146.
• Botello, H. (2025). Examining the Relationship between Harsh Disciplinary Practices and Children’s Learning Outcomes in Thailand. Journal of Economic Development, 50(1), 91-1047.
• Botello-Peñaloza, H.A. (2021). Does the paradox of healthy immigrants apply in developing countries? SN Social Sciences, 1(8), 1958.
• Botello-Peñaloza, H.A., & Guerrero Rincón, I. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 mitigation actions on rural labor informality in Colombia. Tendencias, 22(2), 182-212. (DOI: You need to confirm if this is the same as the CV’s “How the coronavirus pandemic has affected gender wage inequality in Colombia” 9)
• Botello, H.A., & Guerrero Rincón, I. (2019). Competition, market concentration and innovation in Ecuador. Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics, 23(48), 16-33.