JILAEE Research Assistants

Research assistants at JILAEE are typically Bachelor or Master students that are essential to our research projects. They support principle investigators with background research, data collection and processing, and preliminary analysis. If you would like to become a JILAEE research assistant please contact us.

 Research Assistants Team

  • Panteleymon Semka

    Panteleymon is an undergraduate student studying physics and economics at the University of Chicago. He graduated from Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires in 2020 and joined JILAEE in 2021. His areas of interest include economic development and behaviour with regard to the Argentine context.

  • Horacio Medina

    Horacio joined the team in September 2019 and is currently a student of the M.A. in Economics program at UCEMA. He has been a teaching assistant at UCEMA since 2020. He is currently an associate at PwC. His main fields of interest are Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics and Behavioral Economics

  • Federico Obermann

    I am a 3rd-year student of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics at UCEMA. I am interested in Financial Markets, Experimental Economics and Behavioral Economics.

  • Brayant De León-Duarte

    Brayant is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago studying Mathematics and Economics. He has been part of JILAEE since November 2022. His areas of interest include Development Economics and Experimental Economics.

  • Clara Pinasco

    Clara is a 3rd year student of the Bachelor´s degree of Business Analytics at UCEMA. Among her areas of interest are Data Analytics and Machine Learning. She joined the JILAEE team in April 2023

  • Bruno Pelaccini

    Bruno is an undergraduate student in his third year of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics at UCEMA. His main interests are Macroeconomics, Experimental Economics and Econometrics. He joined the JILAEE team in April 2023.

  • Antonio Eiro Carneiro

    Antonio Carneiro is an undergraduate student studying Applied Economics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is also currently completing a diploma in Law at the same university. His areas of interest include law and economics and industrial organization economics. He’s been a part of JILAEE since January 2021.

  • Tomas Kay

    Tomas Kay is an IB student at Gulliver Prep in Miami, Florida. His main areas of interest are Applied Mathematics, Economics, and Labor Economics. He’s been a part of JILAEE since July 2023.

  • Adam Rangel

    Adam is an undergraduate Economics student at the University of Chicago. He joined the JILAEE team in August 2023. Among Adam’s areas of interest are Developmental Economics and Regulatory Capture with a focus on Latin America.

  • Juan Martín Favetto

    Juan is an undergraduate student of Economics at UCEMA. He started as an RA at the Friedman Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society, in 2022. His fields of interest include the study of institutions within cultural frameworks and monetary policy. When doing research, his main concern are the epistemological underpinnings.

  • Martina Lacoma

    Martina is doing a masters in economics at the CEMA university. She has a bachelor in electrical engineering in systems engineering and a bachelor in economics from the University of Ottawa. She joined Jilaee in September 2023. Her main areas of interest are microeconomics, financial engineering, financial economics and systems science.

  • Dasha Khamaza

    Dasha is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, majoring in Economics and Spanish. Areas of interest include experimental, environmental, and development economics, particularly in the Latin American context.

  • Octavio Pujalte

    Octavio has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from UADE. At the moment he is a first-year student of the Master's Degree in Economics at UCEMA. His main areas of interest are Institutional Economics, Information Economics and Behavioral Economics.

  • Erin Atacan

    Erin Atacan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Queen’s University and is pursuing a second Bachelor’s in Economics at the same institution. Her main areas of interests are machine learning, natural language processing and behavioural economics.

  • Marco Di Giacommo

    Marco has a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires and is currently a first year-student at the M.A. in Economics program at UCEMA. His areas of interests include Experimental Finance, Experimental Macroeconomics, and the development of NLP tools

  • Ahmad Nadi

    Ahmad is a rising Junior at the University of Chicago planning on pursuing a dual major in both Economics spec. Data Science and Computer Science. I am interested in experimental economics, economic growth, and data analytics.

  • Tomás Villar

    Tomás is a BA student in Economics at UCEMA. He joined JILAEE in June 2024. His main interests are Econometrics, Behavioural Economics and Monetary Economics.

 

Former Research Assistants

  • Pablo Bolaños

    Pablo joined the team in March 2020 and he has a MA in Economics at the Universidad del CEMA. He is an economist from the National University of Costa Rica and has special interest in Monetary Policy, Experimental, Behavioral and Development Economics. He received a job offer at Accenture for a Senior Research Analyst position.

  • Matías Soria

    Matías is an undergraduate student of Economics at Universidad del CEMA. He joined the team in September 2019 and his main area of interest is behavioral finance.

  • Martín Bustos

    Martin is an economist interested in applied economics and applied econometrics. He holds a BA in Economics from UBA and is a student of the MA program in Economics at UCEMA. He has been part of JILAEE since August 2019 - Fall 2021. Now he has started his PhD program in Economics at University of Western-Ontario. His main research interests are motivated cognition and the diffusion of misinformation.

  • Leandro Nallar

    Leandro was part of JILAEE from April 2019 till May 2021. Now he is an Associate at Berkeley Research Group LLC.

  • Rita Neves

    Rita holds a BSc in Economics from NOVA SBE and will start her MSc in Economics in the same university, aiming to specialize in International Development and Trade. Her main interests focus on Development and Experimental Economics, International Migrations, and Impact Evaluation.

  • Tomás Marco

    Tomás was part of the team from October 2019 to December 2021. At JILAEE, he has been involved in research projects on gender economics and early childhood interventions. In December 2021, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from UCEMA, where he has also been a teaching assistant since August of the same year. He will continue his academic career in topics related to international and monetary macroeconomics.

  • Gonzalo Urquiza

    Gonzalo is an economist from the National University of Mar del Plata. He is currently a master's student in economics at UCEMA. He is also a research scholar at CONICET-INTA working on environmental and agricultural economics.

  • Eduardo Córdoba

    Eduardo is a student of the Bachelor of Economics at UCEMA. He is an intern in Management Control at Pampa Energía and teaches tutorials at UCEMA. He is also about to graduate with a degree in Economics.

  • Ehsan Merati

    Ehsan is a recent graduate of Queen’s University, where he completed a dual degree in Commerce and Economics. He will be begin his work as a management consultant in September. His main areas of interest are in behavioral economics and experimental economics.

  • Kaitlyn Vanderwees

    Kaitlyn is currently completing her master’s in Economics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She has an undergraduate degree from the same university in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Her interests are development, public economics and impact analysis

  • Pilar Isasti

    Pilar is studied the Bachelor of Economics at CEMA University. She was part of the group from October 2019 to August 2022. Now she is working at JP Morgan.

  • Miriam Malament

    Miriam studied UCEMA. She has been part of JILAEE since October 2021. Her areas of interest include Behavioral Economics, Microeconomics and Experimental Economics. Now she is doing an MA in Economics at Universidad del San Andrés.

  • Lakshmi Anandaraj

    Lakshmi is a 3rd year student in the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Program at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. She joined JILAEE in 2022 and her areas of interest are public and development economics and behavioural economics.

  • Melody Yelenosky

    Melody is an undergraduate student of Economics with a specialization in Business and Psychology at The University of Chicago. Her educational background includes studying abroad in Argentina, Italy and Mexico. Her interests are International Economics and Experimental Economics.

  • Martín Gallardo

    Martín has a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires and he’s currently a second-year student at the M.A. program at UCEMA. His interests are Market Design, Experimental Economics and Behavioral Economics. He’s been a part of JILAEE since September of 2020.

  • Juan Cruz Duhalde

    Juan Cruz graduated at UCEMA he is now JILAEE’s Research Profess.onal His main areas of interes are Institutional Economics, Monetary Economics and Behavioral Economics.

  • Franco Albino

    Franco finished his studies Bachelor of Economics at UCEMA while he was JILAEE’s RA. He graduated and he went to work as an RP for John List at UChicago.

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