I'm a PhD student in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid under the supervision of Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga. My research interests are migration, labor, and network economics.
Since 2023, I have been a Teaching Assistant at UC3M undergraduate courses in Principles of Economics, Microeconomics, and Urban Economics. I am also a member of the organizing committee of The Economics of Migration Junior Seminar since 2024.
Abstract: Instrumental variables are often used to identify the causal effect of immigration on labor market outcomes of natives. In this paper, I investigate the sensitivity of 2SLS estimators in the (common) case where a simultaneous shock occurs to the unit of interest and we do not explicitly account for it. For this purpose, I estimate the effects of both the Venezuelan immigration shock and the Peruvian emigration during the last decades on the labor market outcomes of Peruvian native stayers. Using shift-share instruments, I document positive effects of both immigration and emigration on employment rates, household income, and household expenditure (with emigration effects being about eight times larger). Reassuringly for the literature, even in a context of instruments correlated with the omitted flow the point estimates are shown to be robust to the inclusion of the omitted variable.
Work-in-progress
