I’m a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, in the Business and Public Policy group at the Haas School of Business, and the ACES Dissertation Fellow. I have a BA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
In the Fall of 2025 I will join the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor, after spending one year at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Research Program in Development Economics.
My research interests are in political economy, development economics and behavioral economics.
(Curriculum Vitae) • m.ortiz@berkeley.edu
Hate, Fear and Intergroup Conflict: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
• Winner of the Weiss Family Distinguished Paper at NEUDC 2023
• Covered in: Marginal Revolution
Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs from Taxation
with Soeren Henn, Christian Mastaki, Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra and David Q. Wu
(Accepted Review of Economic Studies)
Local Markets as Intergroup Contact Platforms: Evidence from an RCT in Nigeria
(full funding secured)
Ethiopian Factory: The Effect of Managerial Practices of Chinese Firms on Ethiopian Workers
(with David Q. Wu)