Education
- Ph.D. in Economics, Brown University, 2022
- M.A. in Economics, Brown University, 2019
- M.A. in Economics of Public Policy, Barcelona School of Economics, 2016
- M.A. in Urban Economics (thesis pending due to continuing studies abroad), 2015
- B.S. (Licenciatura) in Economics, Universidad de la República, 2012
Relevant Work Experience
- Full-time Economist, Amazon, Amazon Pharmacy Economics Team, since Fall 2022
- Duties included: Time series forecasting, time series machine learning, pricing policy simulation and causal evaluation, designing and implementing A/B tests, all in the pharmacy space.
- Supervisor: Greg Lewis
- Full-time Economist, Amazon, AWS - Central Economics Team, Summer 2022
- Duties included: Neareast neighbor matching, synthetic control method, and industrial organization in the cloud computing space.
- Supervisor: Andre Trindade
- Full-time Intern Economist, Amazon, AWS - Central Economics Team, Summer 2021
- Duties included: Working in two research projects in the cloud computing space using forecasting, industrial organization, causal inference policy evaluation, and machine learning.
- Supervisor: Andre Trindade
- Research Assistant, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
- Duties included: Warehousing, cleaning, and analyzing massive mobile phone spatial data requiring knowledge on how to handle efficiently large geocoded datasets.
- Supervisors: Milena Almagro (UChicago Booth), Juan Camilo Castillo (UPenn), and Tobias Salz (MIT)
- Research Assistant, Brown University, Department of Economics, Fall 2020
- Duties included: Using various datasets and causal inference techniques to estimate the effects of Pay Transparency policies on wages and employment. Forthcoming in Econometrica 2023. Draft here
- Supervisors: Bobby Pakzad-Hurson (Brown) and Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School)
- Research Assistant, Brown University, Department of Economics, Spring 2020
- Duties included: Analyzing transactions data from supermarkets for a project trying to understand consumer behavior using discrete choice models of demand with reference dependent utility.
- Supervisor: Neil Thakral
- Research Assistant (later promoted to coauthor), Brown University, Department of Economics, Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
- Duties included: Gathering, warehousing, and analyzing employer-employee data from Chile’s pension system to study the effects of an equal pay law in the gender wage gap and firm-level gender segregation.
- Supervisors: Bobby Pakzad-Hurson (Brown) and Fuhito Kojima (Stanford)
- Full-time Research Assistant, Brown University, Department of Economics and RIPL, Fall 2016 - Spring 2018
- Consultant, Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires and CIPUV, Fall 2014
- Duties included: Advising the director of the Buenos Aires social housing authority in a public program to subsidize rents and in a program to rellocate a slum, as part of an agreement with the Research Center for Urban policy and Housing (CIPUV).
- Supervisors: Cynthia Goytia (UTDT) and Emilio Basavilbaso (ANSES)
- Research Intern, Urbanistes du Monde, Summer 2014
- Duties included: Writing a research report about the port-city interface in Buenos Aires. The report can be found here.
- Supervisor: Diego Gutierrez
Skills
- Data software:
- R
- STATA
- Python
- ArcGIS
- QGIS
- SQL
- Amazon Redshift
- Project management:
- Research writing:
- Languages:
- Spanish (Native)
- English (Full professional proficiency)
- French (Intermediate)
- Portuguese (Intermediate)
- Italian (Intermediate)
- Catalan (Intermediate)
- Hobbies:
- Playing soccer
- Cyclying
- Playing the guitar
Teaching Experience
- Pre-college Lecturer, Brown University, Summer 2021
- Game Theory and Behavioral Economics
- Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Fall 2021
- Essential Mathematics for Economics
- Supervisor: Kristina Mallory
- Pre-college Lecturer, Brown University, Summer 2020
- Game Theory and Behavioral Economics
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
- Mathematics I and II, Microeconomics I, and Macroeconomics I
- Supervisors: Pablo Azcue (UTDT) and Marzia Raybaudi Massilia (UTDT)
Service and Leadership
- Intramural Soccer Champion with Random Walk, Brown University, Department of Economics, Fall 2019
- Volunteer work for food pantry Comedor de Barrancas El Gomero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fall 2013
- Provided help with homework (apoyo escolar) to school kids in informal settlement Villa 31, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Spring 2014
- Provided help building temporary houses in informal settlement for TECHO, Montevideo, Uruguay, Spring 2011
- Student representative at Student Convention (FEUU UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010 and 2011