About
I am an Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where I hold a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and School of Government. I am also an Affiliated Researcher with IZA and CEDLAS, and an advisor to Sendas Think Tank in Honduras.
I received my Ph.D. in Agricultural & Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; an M.A. in Economics at Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Argentina, where I was a member of CEDLAS; and earned my undergraduate degree in Economics in my country of birth from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
I am currently studying how green transitions and technological change may affect labor markets in developing countries and what governments can do to ensure an equitable road for all workers; investigating how drug trafficking affects individuals and households in transit countries and the resulting implications for policy; documenting best practices when using machine learning methods to carry out survey-to-survey imputations to estimate poverty rates and trends when welfare data are unavailable; and investigating how best to support displaced migrants integrate economically and socially via regularization programs in their host country.
Research Fields
Applied Microeconomics
- –Development
- –Labor
- –Education
- –Violence & Crime
- –Poverty & Inequality
- –Displacement & Migration
Econometrics & Data Science
- –Impact Evaluation
- –Machine Learning Methods
- –Survey-to-Survey Imputations
- –Spatial Econometrics
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