Welcome! Bienvenido! 

I am an economist focused on labor markets, migration, and discrimination, with a broader interest in policy evaluation. In my role as an Economics Associate at Cornerstone Research in Los Angeles, I contribute to empirical analyses in high-stakes litigation settings tackling questions around labor market dynamics, discrimination, and market structure. 

My academic research examines how public policy and institutions shape labor market outcomes, with a focus on heterogeneity and distributional effects. I am particularly interested in settings where impacts differ across groups and are difficult to measure credibly. 

I earned my PhD in Economics and MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023, building on earlier training at El Colegio de Mexico and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. My research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, Labour Economics, and Demography. It has also been recognized with globally competitive awards such as the Banamex Economics Prize (1st prize) and the Victor Urquidi Economics Prize (1st prize). 

Across academic and applied work, I aim to produce rigorous empirical evidence that informs public and private policy design and deepens our understanding of labor markets. 

Contact Information

Email: emedinacortina@gmail.com

Tel: +1 (217) 778-4302