Carolina is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at
Teachers College, Columbia University (since Fall 2024). She earned
her PhD in Economics at Georgetown in 2023, with Christopher on her
committee, then was a postdoc at the Development Innovation Lab at
the University of Chicago for a year before joining Columbia. Her
research focuses on educational and social mobility and the design
of policies that improve students’ well-being, drawing on economic
theory to inform empirical analysis in developing-country contexts.
Secondary fields: Development Economics and Political Economy.
