I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and Aix-Marseille University, where my research is supervised by Federico Trionfetti and Lorenzo Rotunno. Before Marseille, I completed my BA in Economics at Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá.

I am on the 2026–27 economics job market.

My fields are development economics, labor economics, and international trade. I study how policies and economic shocks reshape local economies in developing countries by reallocating resources across firms, workers, and households, and how those adjustments feed back into labor markets, firm dynamics, and household behavior.

One strand studies place-based industrial policy. Special Economic Zones are adopted almost everywhere to attract investment, yet they target a narrow set of firms; my job market paper shows that in Colombia they raised informality without expanding total employment, reallocating rather than creating local labor demand.

Another studies the economics of care. Unpaid care work is a binding constraint on women’s time, and a large place-based care programme in Bogotá lets us ask whether relieving it changes what happens inside the household.

A third looks at artificial intelligence as a technological frontier, and what trade exposure implies for where innovation happens.

Empirically I build georeferenced and firm–worker linked administrative datasets and use quasi-experimental designs to recover causal effects.

In Fall 2025 I was a Visiting PhD Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki. In Spring 2025 I visited the Department of Economics at University College London, hosted by Gabriel Ulyssea, and the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. I have also worked as a consultant for the ILO and UNU-WIDER.