On June 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM (Paris time), I defended my thesis Three Essays on Income Inequality in Costa Rica.

Jury:

Mme Matilde BOMBARDINI, University of California, Berkeley

M. Olle FOLKE, Uppsala University

M. Sergei GURIEV, Sciences Po

M. David MARGOLIS, CNRS, PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris

M. Thomas PIKETTY, EHESS, PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris

M. Noam YUCHTMAN, LSE & University of Oxford

Thesis supervisor:

M. Ariell RESHEF, CNRS, PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris

Publications

• Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. et al. World Inequality Report 2022, World Inequality Lab. (Contributor).
• “Chapter 15: Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, with O. Barrera, A. Leiva & C. Martínez-Toledano, in: A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano & T. Piketty (eds.), Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A study of fifty democracies, 1948-2020, Harvard University Press, 2021 (published in French by EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil in April 2021).

Working Papers

• Distributional National Accounts Costa Rica: inequality measures from the national to the local level, 2000-2020.

• Globalization, income inequality and political realignment: the transition from a two-party to a multi-party electoral system in Costa Rica.

Work in progress

• Working with “others”: the effect of foreign-born workers on the electoral behaviour of their local-born co-workers in Costa Rica.

• Changes in the offer of higher education and labour market outcomes: the effect of regional university campuses in Costa Rica (2000-2020).