Edwar Escalante

Edwar Escalante is a Research Assistant Professor at the Free Market Institute (Texas Tech University) and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business, Angelo State University. His research explores institutional responses to violence, focusing on security and development policies.

His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Institutional Economics, Latin American Research Review, and Terrorism and Political Violence. At Angelo State, he teaches undergraduate courses in Principles of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics, and Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences.

His broader research interests span Development Economics and Political Economy, with a focus on institutional analysis and security policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Texas Tech University (2019).