I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Paris School of Economics and EHESS, advised by Suanna Oh and Thierry Verdier. Before Paris, I studied Economics at CIDE in Mexico.

I am on the 2026–27 economics job market.

My job market paper studies why the educational gaps left by historical exclusion outlast the conditions that created them. Along a colonial boundary within one Mexican city, I show that the neighborhood ties that help excluded families cope also raise the cost of educating their children.

The paper was awarded the ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship and the Economic History Association Dissertation Fellowship.

More broadly, I ask why inequality persists between groups and places, not only through the forces that created it but through how people respond to the social environment those forces left behind, and how political leaders’ decisions and cues move citizens and investors. I combine quasi-experimental, experimental and archival evidence with economic theory, mostly in Mexico and Latin America.