Research

My research builds a computational political economy of values — using NLP, causal inference, and dynamical-systems methods to study how moral norms are revealed, contested, and shifted through political discourse and elite mobility. A parallel methodological line develops the tools the agenda requires.

Publications

Helliwell, J. F., Aknin, L. B., Huang, H., Rojas, M., Wang, S., Guerra, V., & Danyluk, A. (2026). “International evidence on happiness and social media.” Chapter 2 in World Happiness Report 2026. University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre.

Earlier work

“Are All Same-Sex Marriage Rights Created Equal? Homophobia and Labor Market Segregation from Heterogeneities in Same-Sex Marriage Legalization.” Undergraduate economics thesis, ITAM. December 2022. (SSRN, Slides.)

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The (ir)relevance of moral facts as metaphysical foundations of legal facts. (In Spanish; abstract in English.) Term paper for an undergraduate course in Philosophy of Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). December 2020.