About Me

I am an Economics PhD student at the University of Michigan. My research formation began in Peru, where I earned a BA in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP), worked on laboratory experiments at the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Laboratory (GECE-PUCP), managed field experiments with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and served as a research assistant at the Research Center of Universidad del Pacifico. Before starting my PhD, I was an Economics Research Specialist at Princeton University.

My work sits at the intersection of public finance, labor, industrial organization, and environmental and energy economics. Studying bundled policy reforms under labor market power helped me see how taxes, mandates, and regulation shape not only firm behavior, but also wages, employment, and the distribution of rents in labor markets. I am also interested in how public finance reaches energy markets and local economies: how energy-market policies affect firms, households, and places, and how policies that change formality incentives can alter environmental outcomes such as pollution and deforestation.

These questions are also personal. I am from Cusco, in the Peruvian Andes, and my family’s history was shaped by large structural reforms in land and education that opened opportunities for vulnerable families to thrive. That history motivates my interest in the markets I study in my PhD: labor markets, public policy, and the institutions that determine who can access opportunity. Growing up near regions rich in minerals and natural gas, while also surrounded by extraordinary biodiversity, also pushed me toward questions about the tradeoffs between development, energy, and environmental protection.