Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, NBER Faculty Research Fellow and associated faculty at CEMFI. My research interests are in health, political economy, education and crime. I received my Ph.D. from UCLA in 2019, and a MA and BA from Universidad de los Andes.

In the fall of 2025 and winter of 2026, I will be on leave at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.

Publications

Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic (with Victoria Barone) forthcoming at The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Is it the Message or the Messenger? Examining Movement in Immigration Beliefs (with Hassan Afrouzi and Emily Weisburst) Supplementary material (2024), Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics

Parental Incarceration and Children's Educational Attainment (2023), Review of Economics and Statistics

The Effect of Human Capital on Earnings: Evidence from a Reform in Colombia’s top University (2018), Journal of Public Economics

Working Papers

Health Spillovers: The Broad Impact of Spousal Health Shocks with Natalia Vigezzi and Pilar Garcia-Gomez. Online Appendix.

Demographic Divergence: The Legacy of the Opioid Epidemic (with Victoria Barone and Stephen Claassen)

Improving Judicial Protection in Intimate Partner Violence Cases: The Role of Specialized Courts and Judges with Gustavo Bobonis, Paola Salardi and Dario Toman