Marcia Ruiz Pulgar is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Michigan. Her current research interests lie in the intersection of Development Economics, Labor and Public Economics. Prior to starting at Michigan, Marcia worked as a predoctoral research professional at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago on topics related to empirical public finance and labor economics. She also worked as a consultant at the InterAmerican Development Bank, and as a research associate at Innovations for Poverty Action. Marcia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.