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 political economy, development economics, historical economics, 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 social exclusion, in the form of a colonial divide within a city, leaves two distinct legacies: on places, lower land values in historically excluded areas; and on people, a social life oriented toward the immediate neighborhood that can depress educational investment long after differences in public provision disappear.

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.