Welcome to my website! I am a research economist in the Poverty, Inequality, and Human Development Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group, research fellow at CESifo and research affiliate at the IZA, HiCN, and AMIE networks and at the DECRG's CRWJ and AI/DD research centers. I am also core team member of the World Development Report 2026 on AI and Development. I hold a Ph.D. and master’s in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and a BA from ESEN in El Salvador, the country where I am proud to be born and raised.

My research agenda explores three main questions: (1) Do investments in early childhood yield positive outcomes for both parents and children? (2) What interventions are effective in addressing violent behaviors and promoting the well-being of adolescents? (3) How can educational services be enhanced in settings that are fragile and affected by conflict? Additionally, I explore other topics such as improving data collection through experiments, among other areas of interest. To investigate these questions, I conduct both experimental and non-experimental studies in various regions, including Latin America, Eastern Europe, South Asia, and South Saharan Africa. I am also a regular contributor to the Development Impact blog and co-organizer of the World Bank research department poverty & applied microeconomics seminar series. 

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