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Diego Rojas

PhD. Candidate

Emory University

Biography

I am a graduate student at the department of Economics at Emory University. I started in my program in the Fall semester of 2017. Originally, I am from Quito-Ecuador. I obtained my Bachelor degree at PUCE. I spent several years working on policy research in several public institutions in my home country: SRI, INEC, Instituto de la Ciudad. After that I moved to Atlanta, to continue my studies. My area of work is Econometrics, with focus on Networks.

Interests

  • Network Econometrics and Statistics
  • Inference in Statistical Learning
  • Big data, parallel and distributed computing

Education

  • PhD in Economics, Expected (2022)

    Emory University

  • B.A. in Economics, 2013

    Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador

  • B.A. in Economics, 2012

    Universite Grenoble Alpes

Skills

R

Python

Apache Spark

Scala

Shell

git

Azure

Postgres

MySQL

Recent Publications

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Data Science in Stata 16: Frames, Lasso, and Python Integration

Anson T. Y. Ho, Kim P. Huynh, David T. Jacho-Chávez, Diego Rojas
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Survival Analysis of Banknote Circulation: Fitness, Network Structure, and Machine Learning.

The efficient distribution of banknotes is a first-order responsibility of central banks. We study the distribution patterns of …
Juan Estrada, Kim P Huynh, David T Jacho-Chávez, Diego Rojas

Reducción de la Pobreza rural en Ecuador: Un análisis de las actividades generadoras de ingresos

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Localización de centros de empleo y su influencia sobre la distribución de la población en el distrito metropolitano de quito

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Metodologı́a de construcción del agregado de consumo y estimación de lńea de pobreza en el Ecuador

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

May 2020 – Present Atlanta-USA
Data processing and analytics for Principal Researcher.
 
 
 
 
 

Research/Teaching Assistant

Emory University, Department of Economics

Aug 2017 – Present Atlanta
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

Centro de Estudios Fiscales

Oct 2015 – Jul 2017 Quito-Ecuador
Plan, design, and carry out quantitative research projects related to the evaluation of tax imposition effects on welfare.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos

Jul 2013 – Sep 2015 Quito-Ecuador
Plan, design, and carry out quantitative research projects related to poverty, inequality, and other welfare dimensions.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

Instituto de la Ciudad de Quito

Sep 2011 – Jun 2013 Quito-Ecuador
Policy research about Urban Economics and Economic Geography of the Metropolitan District of Quito

Projects

Data science and Analytics

Local Government Revenue Analyzer

A ‘toy’ version of a shiny app developed for the local governments of Ecuador

Multivariate Random Variable Visualizer

A Shiny App that allows students to view and familiarize themselves with mulitvariate random variables.

Random Variable Visuals

A Shiny App that allows students to view and familiarize themselves with random variables.

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