Research

My research interests are located in the intersection of Empirical Economics, Applied Econometrics, as well as Machine Learning Methods in Causal Inference.

Working papers

Nested Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression: Long Term, Mediated, and Time Varying Treatment Effects _{Joint work with Rahul Singh}

The controlled choice design and private paternalism in pawnshop borrowing. _{Joint work with Francis DiTraglia, Craig McIntosh, Enrique Seira Bejarano and Joyce Sadka}

Genericity of spaces with the extended García-Falset coefficient: $R(t,X)<1+t$ for some $t>0$

Inference in Synthetic Control Methods using the Robust Wasserstein Profile function

Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs? WIEGO Working Paper No. 46. _{Joint work with Enrique Seira Bejarano, Eduardo González-Pier and Eduardo Alcaraz.}

Thesis

Bachelor Thesis in Economics (First place in Research Award ExITAM XXV): _{Confidence region via the RWP function: an application to synthetic control methods}

Bachelor Thesis in Mathematics (in spanish) (Special mention in Research Award ExITAM XXV): _{Geometry of Banach Spaces and Fixed Point Theory}

Technical notes/Surveys

Bandits and online optimization in infinite spaces. UMD spaces are UMD-learnable.

The Cameron-Martin Theorem.

Software

nnpiv : Python implementation of nested NPIV Meza, Singh. This package estimates nonparametrically nested moment conditions.

tot_tut : Stata implementation for estimation of ToT & TuT using the design in “The controlled choice design and private paternalism in pawnshop borrowing” DiTraglia, McIntosh, Meza, Seira, Sadka

net install tot_tut, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/isaacmeza/tot_tut/main) replace

fan_park : Stata implementation of sharp bounds on the distribution of treatment effects of a binary treatment developed in Fan, and Park (2009)

net install fan_park, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/isaacmeza/fan_park/main) replace