Mauricio M. Cáceres Bravo

Economics PhD candidate at Brown University


Education

Brown University

Ph.D. in Economics

  • Honorable W. Randolph Burgess Fellowship
  • Merit Dissertation Fellowship
May 2025 (Expected)

Columbia University

M.A. in Economics

  • Dean's Fellow
  • Provost Diversity Fellowship
May 2015

University of Utah

B.S. in Mathematics (Statistics)

B.S. in Economics

  • Magna Cum Laude
  • Student Commencement Speaker
  • Undergraduate Research Scholar
  • Francis Family Foundation Assistantship Award
  • Mathematics Continuing Departmental Scholarship
  • Dean's list
Aug 2012

Experience

Brown University

Research Assistant

May 2020-Present

Jesse Shapiro, Summer 2020 to Summer 2021, various projects.

Peter Hull, Fall 2021 to May 2024. Various projects in applied econometrics; included coding companion Stata packages MulTE and ManyIV.

Jon Roth, Summer 2022 to May 2024. Various projects in applied econometrics; included coding companion Stata packages HonestDiD, staggered, and pretrends.

Brown University

Instructor

Sep 2021-Present

Aug 2021, 2022, 2023: Math Camp for incoming economics PhD class.

Summer 2022, 2023, 2024: Introduction to Econometrics for Summer@Brown Pre-College program.

Summer 2024: Lab Manager for The Annenberg Institute’s Undergraduate Research Fellows program.

Brown University

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2020-Dec 2020

Professor Alex Poterack. Graduate-level Mathematics for Economists.

Yale School of Management

Research Assistant

Jul 2017-Aug 2019

I worked as a research assistant for Professors Fiona Scott Morton, Jason Abaluck, Kevin Williams, and Michael Sinkinson on various projects related to health economics and IO.

National Bureau of Economic Research

Research Assistant

Jun 2015-Jun 2017

Joseph J. Doyle (MIT). Returns to medicare spending; various RCTs.

Jason Abaluck (Yale). Inattention in discrete choice models with consideration sets; including companion Stata package to Abaluck and Adams-Prassl (2021).

Columbia University

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2014-May 2015

Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martín. Intermediate Macroeconomics (Fall).

Professor Jón Steinsson. Intermediate Macroeconomics (Spring).

Zions Bancorporation

Credit Risk Analyst

Sep 2012-Aug 2013

Statistical modeling and analysis of retail lending credit risk.

University of Utah

Research Assistant

Aug 2011-May 2012

Kenneth P. Jameson. The effects of the undocumented population.

Richard Fowles. Motorcycle fatalities and helmet usage in Thailand.

Utah Community Research Group (CRG)

Analyst

Jan 2012-May 2012

Survey-based market research for Overstock.com

Rice University

Research Assistant

May 2011-Jun 2012

Javier Rojo. Survival analysis of liver transplantation patients.


Skills

Scientific Software

Advanced

  • Stata
  • R
  • SAS
  • Python
  • LaTeX
  • MATLAB

Other

Intermediate

  • Julia
  • VBA (Excel)
  • MS Word
  • MS Excel
  • MS PowerPoint

General Purpose

Intermediate

  • C
  • Bash
  • VBScript
  • MS Batch

Version Control

Intermediate

  • Git
  • SVN

Presentations

Banco de Portugal Workshop on Empirical Research with Large Datasets

Dec 2022

16th International Industrial Organization Conferences

Apr 2018

Southern Economic Association 83rd Annual Meetings

Nov 2013

University of Utah Spring 2012 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Apr 2012

National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2012

Mar 2012

Rice University Summer Institute of Statistics Research Presentations

Jul 2011

Languages

  • English, Fluent
  • Spanish, Native speaker