Hola, I’m Mauricio
I’m an economist from Lima, Peru 🇵🇪, currently a Pre-doctoral Research Professional at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at the University of Chicago, where I work with Ariel Kalil.
This site is where I keep some of my work, the projects I’m in the middle of and the half-finished ideas I want to come back to. Have a look around.
Research Fields
Gender and the Labor Market · Family Economics · Economics of Education
Consulting and Applied Research
I have also worked on applied economics: impact evaluation, reproducibility auditing and regulatory analysis for multilateral organizations, governments and private firms across five countries in Latin America.
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
- ECLAC, United Nations
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Ministry of Education of Peru
- Banco de Crédito del Perú
Elsewhere
Where I’ve Been Lately
Preschool Absenteeism and Experimental Sign-Up Bias Advances with Field Experiments, BFI · Chicago, September 2026 · with Sebastián Gallegos · 2 photos
Behavioral Insights and Chronic Absenteeism EC*REACH, Northwestern · Chicago, June 2026 · 3 photos
How Traditional Are We? Peruvian Economic Association · Lima, July 2026
Mom, I’m in the News! Our time-poverty report in El Comercio · Lima, November 2025