Welcome!

I am a Research Economist at the Impact Evaluation unit of the Mexican Central Bank, Banco de México , after several years in the Research Department. I hold a Master’s degree from the MIT Department of Economics , and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science from ITAM .

I am interested in combining economic theory, econometrics, data analysis techniques, and computational methods to inform economic policies and design political institutions conducive to welfare gains. Also, I’m increasingly interested in the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to natural language processing (NLP) and causal inference.

Please note that the views or statements herein do not necessarily reflect those of Banco de México or any of my affiliations.

Feel free to contact me! rcastroc@mit.edu