I am currently Assistant Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico) since 2011, where I teach Microeconomics, Econometrics, and Development Economics. My research themes include Microeconomics of Migration and Remittances, Schooling Choices and Return Migration. Previously, from 2008 untill 2010, I was Assistant Professor at the Guanajuato School of Economics. 

I received my Ph.D from the Toulouse School of Economics, in July 2008. My thesis is entitled: How Family Prestige can Shape Intergenerational Transfers: Migration, Remittances and Schooling in Matam, Senegal. After being taught advanced Economic Theory, Statistics and Econometrics, I conducted repeated fieldworks among the Haalpulaar communities both in France and Senegal studying intergenerational family transfers. In 2004, I conducted my own household survey near Matam (Middle Senegal Valley), and very naturally felt the need to mix a Development Microeconometrics approach with a more qualitative one borrowed from other Social Sciences.

In 2010, I conducted a second household survey on return migration in León, Guanajuato (Mexico) with sociologist Jacqueline Hagan from UNC-CH. WE are currently working on first results on returns to migration and skill transfers. 

I ideally would like to pursue working in a multi-disciplinary environment doing research on Development issues, and teaching Economics and Quantitative Methods to a large audience.

My interests include the following themes: Development Microeconomics, Applied Microeconometrics, Migration and Remittances, Schooling, Social Status, Economics of Caste in West-Africa, Cultural Studies, Senegal, Mexico.