About me

I am a Ph.D. student at UCLA’s economics department. I have a broad interest in development economics questions and I approach these using tools from industrial organization.

Currently, I am working on two projects. In one, I study the welfare effects of a quality regulation policy in the context of higher education in Peru. In the other, I estimate firm-level markups using administrative data from Uganda and explore whether political connections could be a source of market power. I’m also spending considerable time thinking about urbanization processes in Latin America, mostly inspired by this book.

Prior to joining UCLA, I was a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy, where I worked with professors Christopher Neilson and John Eric Humphries. Before that, I worked at IPA in Peru, and at J-PAL LAC in the Dominican Republic. I received my B.A. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru in 2018.

You can find my CV here.

Contact me at mguerreroa at ucla dot edu

Fields of interest

Main: Development economics, Industrial Organization

Secondary: Labor economics, Political Economy