Welcome to my website. I am a stratification sociologist studying the mechanisms through which social inequalities emerge across schooling careers, labour markets and institutional contexts. My research interests include social stratification and educational/labour market inequality, sociology of education, comparative educational research and quantitative methodology. I am currently working on three main research lines: i) The institutional structure of the Chilean and Latin American school systems, and how it affects social outcomes; ii) Socioeconomic inequalities across the life course, with particular attention to educational transitions; iii) Comparative work across the Americas in the intersection between labour markets and education.

My research focuses on how educational inequalities are shaped by the interplay between family decision-making, school social environments, institutional design, and its influences on other social outcomes such as labour market returns. Using Chile and Latin America as both sociological and policy-relevant cases of highly privately driven, sectorally differentiated education systems, I examine how parents’ educational choices, particularly parental expectations, influence achievement and transitions into higher education, both directly and through their aggregate consequences, thereby setting in motion school-level social dynamics. Methodologically, my work combines large-scale administrative and survey data with quasi-experimental designs to assess the effectiveness of compensatory policies and institutional reforms. A central finding is that policy interventions can generate positive but bounded effects when existing social and institutional structures offset their equalizing potential. By linking outcomes from micro-level mechanisms and meso-level dynamics to system-level outcomes, my research provides evidence relevant to policy debates on school choice, regulation of private provision, and the design of equity-oriented education reforms.