Vitae

Esteban Degetau

Contact

World Bank estebandegetau@gmail.com
Mexico City, Mexico www.estebandegetau.com

Education

PhD in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Expected 2026 - 2032
Master in Applied Economics, ITAM, High Honors 2023 - 2025
BA in Economics, ITAM 2016 - 2021

Working Papers

  • The Labor Market Outcomes of (Quasi) Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Mexico’s Retiro Parcial por Desempleo (working paper version). Master’s thesis, ITAM. October 2025.

Select Work in Progress

  • Scaling the Narrative Identification of Fiscal Changes using LLMs (with Agustín Samano)

Work Experience

Research

World Bank
Consultant - Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group, practice to Agustín Samano 2025 - 2026
ITAM
Research Assistant - Center for Economic Research (CIE), practice to Joyce Sadka and Enrique Seira 2022 - 2023

Public Service

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS)
Deputy Head, Fiscal Policy Planning - Affiliation and Collection Directorate 2023 - 2025

Teaching

ITAM
Principles of Microeconomics - Bachelor (Spanish) Fall 2025
IMSS
Statistical tools in R - Office Training (Spanish) Spring 2025

Recognitions

2026 Pedro Aspe Academic excellence award, ITAM
2021 Honorable mention - COFECE Undergraduate Essay Contest, Mexico

Certifications

2022 MicroMasters in Data, Economics and Development Policy - MITx

Technical Skills

Programming: Claude Code, R, Python, Stata, SQL, SAS
Tools: Quarto, Git, Power BI, LaTeX
Languages: Spanish, English

Last updated: May, 2026