Mauricio Tejada studied Economics at the Catholic University of Bolivia and earned his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. His research interests lie in the areas of Labor Economics, Structural Econometrics, and Macroeconomics, with a focus on computational aspects. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad Diego Portales and lead researcher at ANID’s Millenium Nucleus for Labor Market Mismatch: Causes and Consequences. Previously, he worked at Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Additionally, he has instructed courses in macroeconomics and econometrics at Georgetown University, the University of Chile, and the Private University of Bolivia.