I study labor markets shaped by high informality, and what happens when social insurance is extended to workers who sit outside a formal contract. Most of my work uses Mexican administrative and survey microdata to evaluate policies that are already on the books.
I am a Research Economist in the Real Sector Research Division at Banco de México. I hold a PhD in Economics from Stanford University, where I was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and BA and MA degrees from ITAM.
Current work. Social Insurance Without a Job asks whether giving students health coverage untied to employment pushes young workers into informality. It does not. Read the explainer or see Research for the rest.
Labor Market MX recomputes the ENOE’s headline labor indicators from microdata every quarter, validated against INEGI’s own published bulletin. See the data.