Prior to joining the GSEM-University of Geneva as a Professor of Economics, I was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Stanford University (2006-13), a visiting Professor at UC-Berkeley (2010-11). A Wesley Mitchell's visiting Professor at Columbia University (2012-13). From 2013 Research Professor of ICREA-MOVE, Barcelona GSE and UAB. 2014-16: Senior Economist at the the NY-Fed. Since 2018 I am a Visiting Professor at UC-Irvine. I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association since 2015. Member of BREAD, CEPR, and IPA and former member of the NBER.

My work has appeared, among other outlets, in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the AEJ: Applied, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal, the Review of Economic Dynamics.

I teach Development Economics, Labor Economics, Advanced Econometrics.