I am a PhD candidate in Economics at PSE and EHESS. My doctoral research is supervised by Suanna Oh and Thierry Verdier, with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya serving on my thesis committee.

I previously completed my BA and MSc at CIDE in Mexico.

My primary fields are the political economy of development and social economics. My research examines how historical legacies, institutional arrangements, and social dynamics shape persistent inequalities across space and social groups.

I study how colonial-era segregation shapes modern urban outcomes, affecting places through land prices and people’s human capital through neighborhood social capital.

I also study how skin tone shapes economic disparities, showing evidence of intergenerational disparities between skin tone groups across multiple countries, and using natural experiments with novel machine-assessed measures to estimate causal skin tone discrimination.

I also have separate projects on the political economy of populism and on local development.

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