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 field is the political economy of development. My doctoral research investigates how historical legacies, institutional arrangements, and cultural identities shape persistent inequalities across space and social groups.

My current projects explore:

1. How colonial-era segregation shapes modern urban inequality, combining evidence on land prices and educational outcomes with a focus on neighborhood identity as a persistent cultural mechanism.
2. How skin tone shapes economic inequality, drawing on cross-country evidence on income and educational mobility, novel machine-assessed skin tone measures, and causal estimates of discrimination.

In addition, I have a separate line of research on the political economy of populism, showing how populist policies creating uncertainty depresses economic activity and how populist leaders’ cues, rather than partisanship preferences, undermine public health behavior.

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