I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Paris School of Economics and EHESS, where my research is supervised by Suanna Oh and Thierry Verdier, with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya on my thesis committee. Before Paris, I completed my BA and MSc at CIDE in Mexico.

I am on the 2026–27 economics job market.

My fields are the political economy of development and social economics. I study why economic inequality stays attached to social groups long after the institutions that created it disappear, focusing on the markers that make group membership visible.

One strand studies how exclusion, in the form of colonial segregation, produces two distinct outcomes: on places, lower land values in historically excluded areas; and on people, a narrower radius of trust that trades off against human capital accumulation.

Another studies how skin tone shapes economic disparities, documenting intergenerational gaps across twenty-five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and using quasi-experimental variation with machine-assessed measures to identify discrimination.

Separate projects examine the political economy of populism and local development.

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