Experts & Expertise

• Economic Development
• Autonomy; psychology
• Behavioral economics
• Clinical psychology
• Coping
• Decision theory
• Experimental economics
• Poverty

PhD Economics, University of Warwick, July 2009 Thesis Title: Behavioral Decisions: Theory, Implications and Applications. Examiners: Prof. Robert Sugden and Prof. Marco Mariotti. References: Prof. S. Ghosal, Prof. Peter J. Hammond, Prof. Douglas Bernheim.

M.Phil Economics, University of Warwick, 2005 (1st year modules avg. mark, 74.2%)

M.Sc. Economic Analysis and Policy, University of Warwick, 2003 (Distinction)

Licenciate Economics (5-year undergrad program), Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Argentina, 1997

2009-  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Tilburg University; Research Fellow, CentER.

2008-  Research Fellow,  ESRC-DFID Grant "Chronic Poverty and Aspiration Failures"

2007-2008: Resident Tutor,  University of Warwick.

2003-2004: Senior Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, Institutional Improvement Program for the Productive Sector of Less Developed Argentine Provinces.

2003-2004: Research Fellow,  Research and Teaching Centre in Economics for Development, Arg.

1997-2002: Analyst of Public Investment Projects, Argentine Ministry of Economy, Department of Federal Public Investment.

Aspirations and Poverty: A theoretical model (with S. Ghosal and A. Mani) (in progress)

Aspirations and Relative Deprivation: Experimental Evidence (with S. Ghosal and A. Mani) (in progress)

Grants 

ESRC-DFID Grant RES-167-25-0364 on "Chronic Poverty and Aspiration Failures" Research Fellow, May 2008 to Dec 2009, £115,605.45.

 Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

2008: Selected to participate in the 3rd Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economics 

2007: Royal Economic Society Junior Fellowship

2007: Warwick Economics Teaching Fellowship (declined to take the RES Fellowship) 

2004-2007: Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Training 

2004-2007: PhD overseas fees waiver, University of Warwick, Economics Department 

2004: Scholarship, Trento University, Fifth Trento Summer School 

2003: Shiv Nath Prize, by the Warwick University, Economics Department, for the best MSc. dissertation performance in Development Economics 

2002: Tripartita Scholarship, by the University of Warwick, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

2002: Chevening Scholarship, by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office 

2001: Finalist in the selection process for Economists in the United Nations Social and Economic Council 

2001: Postgraduate in Economics Fees Scholarship, by Argentine Ministry of Economy 

2000: Postgraduate in Economics Fees Scholarship, by Universidad Argentina Empresa 

1998: Harvard University Graduate course on Project Evaluation Fees Scholarship, by the Argentine Ministry of Economy 

1994-1995-1996: Licentiate in Economics Fees Scholarships, by Universidad Argentina de la Empresa

Research Fellow, CRETA, University of Warwick. May 2009 - present

Member of Econometric Society, European Economic Association, Royal Economic Society and LACEA.

2009: Vigo; Alicante; Tilburg; IAE Barcelona; RES PhD Conference, UCL; London RES Annual Conference 2009, Surrey; Conference on New Directions in Welfare, Oxford University.

2008: Economic Theory Seminar, University of Warwick; CRETA Summer Conference, University of Warwick; UK European Meetings of the Econometric Society, Bocconi;

2007: Latin America Meetings of the Econometric Society, Universidad Los Andres;  Joint Seminar in Economic Theory and Development, University of Warwick; French Economic Association Conference on Behavioural Economics, Lyon; Central European Program for Economic Theory Workshop, Udine.

2006: CSGR PhD Seminars, University of Warwick.

2005: Research and Teaching Centre in Economics for Development Seminars, Arg.

2003: Economics Seminars, University of La Plata, Arg; First Congress for Postgraduate Students, Universidad de Bahía Blanca, Arg.