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Education

University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in Economics
2021 – 2027 (expected)
University of Minnesota
M.A. in Economics
2024
Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile / Georgetown University
M.A. in Economics
2017
Universidad del Norte, Colombia
B.A. in Economics
2015

Major Fields

  • Macroeconomics
  • Household Finance
  • Labor Macroeconomics
  • Aging and Health

Dissertation

“Family Care as Informal Insurance: Medicaid, Marriage, and Widowhood in Old Age”
Advisor: Mariacristina De Nardi
Summer 2027
(expected)

Working Papers

  • “Family Care as Informal Insurance: Medicaid, Marriage, and Widowhood in Old Age” (Job Market Paper)
  • “Substitutes for Saving: Family Care, Long-Term-Care Risk, and Race in Late Life”
  • “The Incidence of Health Risk: Home Production, Self-Insurance, and Who Bears the Cost”
    with Francisco Bullano
  • “Why do (most) households save and work?”
    with Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Fang Yang — Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review

Work in Progress

  • “Estimating Subjective Health Production Functions”
    with Gabriella Conti, Mariacristina De Nardi, Pamela Giustinelli, and Fan Wang

Research Experience

University of Minnesota
Research Assistant for Mariacristina De Nardi
2023 – Present
Inter-American Development Bank
Research Fellow with Andrés Fernández, Laura Alfaro, and Miguel Acosta
2018

Professional Experience

Central Bank of Chile
Economic Advisor to Board Member Pablo García Silva
2019 – 2021
Central Bank of Chile
Junior Economist, Macroeconomic Analysis Department
2018 – 2021

Teaching

University of Minnesota
Instructor (Writing Sections), Economic Development (Undergraduate)
Summer 2023
University of Minnesota
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate)
2022 – 2023
Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics II (Graduate)
2020
Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
Teaching Assistant, Econometrics II (Graduate)
2017

Honors & Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, National Bureau of Economic Research
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2025 – 2026
Best Poster Award, Embrace Day Graduate Posters Session, Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings
2026
Conference Travel Grant, Council of Graduate Students, University of Minnesota
2025
Funding Award, Health and Retirement Study Summer Workshop, University of Michigan
2024
Distinguished Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota
2023
Summer Graduate Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2022
Magna Cum Laude M.A. Graduation, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
2017
Full Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Economics, Georgetown University/ILADES
Includes full tuition and a monthly stipend
2016 – 2017
Honorable Mention – Best University Student, Premios Portafolio, Colombia
Awarded to the top five economics graduates in Colombia for outstanding academic and professional excellence
2015
Silver Medal for Academic Excellence, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Granted to the graduate with the highest academic performance in each undergraduate program
2015
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
2015

Referee Experience

  • Review of Economic Dynamics

Computer Skills

  • MATLAB, Stata, Fortran, R, EViews, Dynare Toolkit, LaTeX, Qualtrics, LimeSurvey

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (fluent)