She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. Before joining CIDE in 2010, she was a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de Mexico. Her main fields of research are labor economics, demographic economics and development economics. She has won several awards in Mexico such as the Victor Urquidi Economics Award from El Colegio de México. She has published various articles in prestigious journals such as the American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, and others. She's currently interested in studying gender and racial discrimination in Mexico.