Social scientist · Public policy evaluation · R for public policy · Computational social science
I am a professor and evaluator working at the intersection of public policy evaluation, governance, citizen perception, and reproducible workflows in R.
My work focuses on:
- public policy evaluation
- local governance and public services
- institutional integrity and democracy
- organized crime and state capacity
- survey analysis and public opinion
- computational social science and agent-based modeling
- open and reusable code under the spirit of #CódigoDeTodxs
Integridad institucional, democracia electoral y crimen organizado: un análisis mediante PCA y modelos multinivel (2026)
Published in América Latina Hoy.
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Conflictos de organizaciones criminales y el principio electoral de la democracia (2024)
Published in Política. Revista de Ciencia Política.
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Aproximación a la Evaluación desde la Fiscalización Superior Local: El caso de la Evaluación Complementaria “Cómo Andamos Guanajuato en la Calidad de los Servicios Públicos” en los años 2022 y 2023 (2024, co-authored)
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Nueva aproximación sobre la representación de la identidad nacional y su problemática en México (2021, co-authored)
Published in SOCIOTAM.
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- Agent-based modeling for ex-ante evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs
- Public services, local governance, and citizen perception in Guanajuato
- Sentiment analysis for social science research
- Reproducible methods and open resources in R for policy analysis
- Teaching materials for statistics, evaluation, and computational methods
Typical tasks
- survey analysis
- data cleaning and transformation
- PCA and index construction
- multilevel models
- impact evaluation
- reproducible reports
- data visualization for public policy audiences
I use this space to share research, replication materials, teaching resources, and open tools for public policy analysis.
I care about making methods more understandable, reusable, and public-facing.
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