Jimena Rico-Straffon

Jimena Rico-Straffon

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

University of California, Santa Barbara

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research interests lie at the intersection of environmental, development, and labor economics.

I use geospatial data and new difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the effects forest policies on deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. Here you can see how I apply de Chaisemartin & D’Haultfoeuille’s did_multiplegt estimator in Stata.

Prior to joining UCSB, I worked at the Economic Research Division of Mexico’s central bank (Banco de México) doing research on labor markets, monetary policy, inequality, and deforestation. I was also a consultant for the World Wildlife Fund-US and an analyst at Mexico’s National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change.

Interests

  • Environmental Economics
  • Natural Resource Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Labor Economics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, (In Progress)

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • M.A. in Economics, 2020

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Master of Public Policy, 2015

    Duke University

  • B.A. in Economics, 2011

    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

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