I am a labor economist specializing in social policy and demography. I am currently a PhD Candidate in Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center. My research examines how places shape economic opportunity, with a focus on intergenerational mobility, urban form, and spatial inequality.

My research combines causal inference techniques with demographic methods and GIS to understand the influence of institutions and small-area level phenomena on economic outcomes. I am currently investigating how the built environment's physical structure moderates economic opportunity, applying spatial econometric methods to datasets combining census data with high-resolution spatial data on human settlements. I also study how colleges foster upward mobility, drawing on two decades of CUNY administrative records.

I also contribute to research on global urbanization and population dynamics. Working with the Institute for Demographic Research at CUNY, I help develop new methods to project populations by Degree of Urbanization (DEGURBA), integrating data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) with demographic models to understand how urban transitions unfold across countries at different stages of development.

Prior to my PhD, I worked 15 years in the private sector manufacturing industry, consulted for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Luxembourg Income Study, and several government agencies in Argentina. I hold an MA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and a Certificate in Demography from CUNY.

Fields: Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Economic Demography