I am Senior Researcher and Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic History of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). I am also affiliated with the following institutions:
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Research Fellow, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin)
Member, Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association
My research interests are in Development, Labor and Political Economy.
NEWS
JULY 2025: I was awarded the ERC Proof-of-Concept (POC) grant 2025 for our project "Monitoring War Destruction" (MonWaDes). BSE press note.
JULY 2025: The Pick of the Crop forthcoming at Journal of the European Economic Association
MAY 2025: Check out the amazing program of the BSE Summer Forum 2025 workshops on Migration (JUN 5 & 6) and Development (JUN 18 &19).
JAN 2025: I am looking for 2 Predoc RA's funded through the ERC RUSTDEC project - 1 Data Collection Specialist (deadline: FEB 2) & 1 Analysis Specialist (deadline: FEB 9). Come work with me!
JAN 2025: The calls for the BSE Summer Forum 2025 workshops on Development (JUN 18 &19) and Migration (JUN 5 & 6) are out (deadline: FEB 28). Send us your best work and join us in Barcelona!
OCT 2024: New VoxEU column on Foreign aid and the ‘root causes’ of migration and a recent mention at VoxDev.
OCT 2024:.
JUNE 2024: Forecasting Bilateral Asylum Seeker Flows with High-dimensional Data and Machine Learning Techniques conditionally accepted at Journal of Economic Geography.
JUNE 2024: BSE Focus article and video interview about my ERC project "Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries" (RUSTDEC)
MAY 2024: I have been invited as a Member of the Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association (VfS).
MAY 2024: I have been appointed Associate Research Professor by the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).
APR 2024: I have been invited as Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
FEB 2024: we received the 2023 Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research – BBVA Foundation Award in the category "Best contribution in Statistics and Operations Research applied to Data Science and Big Data" for our paper on war destruction detection. Bonus: video interview of me trying to explain it in Spanish :)
Curriculum Vitae (02/2023)