Research Professor at IPEG and affiliate researcher at IZA and CEPR and member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity group at the University of Chicago. 2005 Phd in Economics from Yale University. She started her career at UAB, moved to CEMFI in 2015 as a Research Professor. In 2014 she obtained an ERC Starting Grant to work on understanding the importance of the design of school choice procedures for the educational landscape and to develop non cognitive assessment tools. Her leadership in an interdisciplinary group of researchers working on socioemotional learning led the creation of Pentabilities, a method to promote formative assessment for socioemotional learning. In the acedemic year 2022-2023 she led the design and implementation of 4 large scale RCTs in schools in Spain.

Her research focuses on Public Economics with an emphasis on school choice, educational policies, affirmative action, measurement of non-cognitive skills and welfare economics in general. Her work includes theoretical, experimental and empirical analysis. She is currently working very closely with the education sector, promoting  the implementation and evaluation of rigurous formative assessment tools for socioemotional learning in primary, secondary, vocational training and college worldwide.