About
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 Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). My research interests are in Development, Labor and Political Economy.
NEWS
OCT 2024: New VoxEU column on Foreign aid and the ‘root causes’ of migration.
OCT 2024: The Pick of the Crop conditionally accepted at Journal of the European Economic Association.
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)