Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middlebury College
2024 – Present
Faculty Fellow, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middlebury College
2024 – Present
Research Affiliate, IZA Network
2025 – Present
Affiliated Researcher, Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics
2024 – Present
Invited Researcher, J-PAL
2025 – Present
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2017 – 2023
Exchange Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2021
M.A., Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
2013 – 2015
B.A., Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
2008 – 2013
Accepted, Forthcoming, and Published Papers
“Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students”
(with Marcel Preuss, Jason Somerville, and Joy Wu)
Accepted, Journal of Public Economics
“Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms”
Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics
“Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution”
(with Marcel Preuss, Jason Somerville, and Joy Wu)
Accepted, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
“The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University”
(with Cecilia Machado and Evan Riehl)
Journal of Labor Economics 43(2): 391–431, 2025
“Are Fairness Perceptions Shaped by Income Inequality? Evidence from Latin America”
(with Leonardo Gasparini)
The Journal of Economic Inequality 20: 893–913, 2022
Working Papers
“Cognitive Endurance, Talent Selection, and the Labor Market Returns to Human Capital”
“Generative AI in Higher Education: Evidence from an Elite College”
(with Zara Contractor), IZA Working Paper #18055
“Stakes and Signals: An Empirical Investigation of Muddled Information in Standardized Testing”
(with Evan Riehl and Ruqing Xu), NBER Working Paper #32608
Grants
NSF EPSCoR Pilot Research Grant (Co-PI), $18,748
2026
NBER, Data for Economic Measurement Award, $6,300
2026
Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award, $7,500
2026
Russell Sage Foundation, Presidential Award, $64,670
2026
Pangram, API Research Grant, $5,000
2026
Anthropic Economic Futures Program, Research Grant, $75,200
2025
Cosmos Institute, AI Research Grant, $10,000
2025
Schmidt Sciences AI at Work, Proposal Development Award, $10,000
2025, 2026
Weiss Fund, Research Grant (Co-PI), $15,000
2024
J-PAL Social Protection Initiative, Research Grant (Co-PI), $50,000
2024
Spencer Foundation, Research Grant on Education, $42,470
2024
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224, Research Grant, $7,950
2023
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant #SES-2149314, $24,948
2022
UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab Initiative on Racial Equity in the Labor Market Grant, $4,500
2021
Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Research Grant (Co-PI), $12,000
2020
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Robert A. & Ina Jones Junior Fellow in Economics, Middlebury College
2026 – Present
Review of Economics and Statistics NBER SI Fellowship
2025
Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University (declined)
2023
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, National University of Singapore (declined)
2023
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
2017 – 2022
Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics
2022
L.R. Wilson Excellence in Economics Medal, Cornell University
2021
Graduate Resident Fellow, Keeton House, Cornell University
2019 – 2021
The Tobin Project Graduate Student Fellowship
2020
Best Master’s Thesis Award, Economics Department, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2015
Young Economist Paper Prize, Central Bank of Argentina
2015
Student Paper Prize, Central Bank of Argentina
2013
Manuel Belgrano’s Award, Economics Department, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2013
Dr. Joaquín V. González’s Award, Municipality of La Plata
2013
Presentations
2026: Cornell University; University of Missouri; Ohio University; NBER Economics of Education Spring Meeting; NBER Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence Summer Institute (coauthor); Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting.
2025: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Middlebury College (Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture); Northeastern Economics of Education Workshop (Brown); Liberal Arts Colleges Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop; Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference; Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting; Athens University of Economics and Business.
2024: Michigan State University; Colby College; IZA/Bonn University; Mind, Behavior and Development Unit (World Bank); NBER Economics of Education Spring Meeting; NBER Personnel Economics Summer Institute (coauthor); Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference; Liberal Arts Colleges Labor and Public Conference; Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economics; Persist Workshop (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).
2023: Columbia Business School; Wharton Business Economics and Public Policy; National University of Singapore; Middlebury College; Binghamton University; Tecnológico de Monterrey; Universidad del Rosario; Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello; FGV-EPGE Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças; IZA/Bonn University (briq); Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
Professional Activities
Referee: American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Management Science, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Experimental Economics, Labour Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Human Capital, The Journal of Economic Inequality.