Carmen is a PhD student in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, specializing in labor economics with a focus on informality, worker sorting, and market allocation in developing economies.
Her current research examines the impact of mobile phone expansion on working conditions in Peru. She exploits the rapid infrastructure rollout in 2006 as an exogenous shock and implements a staggered difference-in-differences design. Moreover, She studies informality dynamics in Egypt using a job ladder framework and analyzes labor mismatch in the Egyptian labor market using distinct measures for employed and non-employed individuals.
Prior to her PhD, She worked as a data and policy analyst at the Peruvian Ministry of Labor, contributing to the design of the National Decent Work Policy and developing predictive models of job quality.
She is interested in applying price theory to understand how incentives, frictions, and institutional constraints shape labor market outcomes.