Nayeli Salgado 

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Tec de Monterrery-Campus Puebla) and External staff of the Institute of Economic and Social History at Vienna University of Economics and Business WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien). 

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from WU, where I was a Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Socioeconomics.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a master’s degree in Development Economics from the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), and another in Economic Development and Growth from Lund University. 

Before joining the Tec of Monterrey, I was the National Housing Policy Coordinator at the Ministry of Agrarian, Urban and Land Development (SEDATU) in charge of implementing the new agenda on adequate housing, self-housing production, and abandoned housing at the national level. My professional experience includes the design, implementation, and analysis of public policies, as well as project management. I have collaborated at the Poverty Analysis Division at the National Council for the Evaluation of the Social Policy (CONEVAL) where I was part of the core team that designed and implemented the official methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty in Mexico and the national chapter of Transparency International. 

My research interests include economic history, economic development, and economic geography. I use historical microdata and natural experiments to study diverse topics on agricultural policies, infrastructure investments, and labor to determine how historical events shape long-run development patterns.