Oscar Gálvez-Soriano's CV

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Education

• PhD in Economics, University of Houston, 2023 

• MA in Economics,  University of Houston, 2021

• MS in Economics, El Colegio de México, 2013

• BS in Agricultural Economics, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, 2011

Current Position

Assistant Instructional Professor, The University of Chicago, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics 

Work Experience

Researcher, University of Houston (Dr. Steven Craig), Summer 2020, 2021

• Developed econometric models of population growth, labor force dynamics and land use of Texas counties

• Developed forecasting models to predict the population growth of Texas counties

Economist, Research Department at Banco de México, 2014-2018

• Made monthly forecasts of key economic variables: GDP, consumption and investment

• Analyzed and made seasonal adjustment to economic indicators

• Developed a model to nowcast the Mexican GDP using high frequency data

Researcher, Sustainable Food and Development (think tank), 2013-2014

• Coded a program to compute monetary and non-monetary income of Mexican households

• Developed and implemented the questionnaire of an income survey to rural households

Honors and Awards

Best Graduate Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Houston, Fall 2022

PhD Research Fellowship, Department of Financial Education, Banco de México, Summer 2022

CLASS Summer Fellowship for Research Excellence and Diversity, UH, Summer 2022

• Awarded to the most promising PhD student in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at University of Houston doing research that contributes to diversity and inclusion

Best Presentation Award, University of Houston Graduate Student Workshop, May 2022

Dr. Walter J. Primeaux Jr. and Natalie A. Primeaux Scholarship, University of Houston, Spring 2022

• Awarded to the most promising 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at University of Houston

Cullen Graduate Student Success Fellowship, University of Houston, July 2021

PhD Research Fellowship, Economic Research Department, Banco de México, Summer 2021

Best Presentation Award, University of Houston Graduate Student Workshop, May 2021

Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston, 2018-2023

Doctoral Scholarship, CONACYT/University of Houston, 2018-2022

• Scholarship awarded to Mexican PhD students abroad

Presidential Fellowship, University of Houston, 2018-2020

• Fellowship offered to students of exceptional caliber who represent extraordinary recruitment opportunities for University of Houston

Josué Sáenz prize, El Colegio de México, January 2014

• Prize awarded to the master degree student with the best thesis at El Colegio de México

Graduate Scholarship, CONACYT/El Colegio de México, 2011-2013

• Scholarship awarded to Mexican students in high quality master programs

Undergraduate Scholarship, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, 2007-2011

• Scholarship awarded to highly achieving undergraduate students at Universidad Autónoma Chapingo

Presentations

2024

• 99th Annual Conference, Western Economic Association

• 49th Annual Conference, Association for Education Finance and Policy

2023

• Research Seminar, CUNEF University

• Research Seminar, El Colegio de México

• Research Seminar, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Research Seminar, Rochester Institute of Technology

2022

• Research Seminar, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

• GLO Global Conference 2022, Global Labor Organization 

• Session 97, PhD - Economics Virtual Seminar

• 92nd Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association

  • Applied Economics session 

  • Mexico's Labor Market Developments session 

• 59th Annual Meeting , Missouri Valley Economic Association

• Research Seminar, Bank of Mexico

2021

• 91st Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association

• Research Seminar (link to video), Universidad Autónoma Chapingo

• Research Seminar, Bank of Mexico

• Graduate Student Workshop, University of Houston

2015-2020

• VI International Congress of Research on Agricultural Sciences, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo

• Seminar of Statistics and Actuarial Science, UNAM, Department of Mathematics

• Research Seminar, ITAM, Department of Statistics

• Research Seminar, Bank of Mexico

Referee Experience

Empirical Economics, Estudios Económicos, The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance, International Journal of Statistics and Geography