Yoseph Ayala

Research Consultant at Columbia University in The City of New York

Columbia University

About Me

I am a Research Assistant Consultant at the University of Columbia and a Partial Time Teacher at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). I got my bachelor’s degree in Economics at PUCP. My research interests include Economics for Development, Microeconometrics, Causal Inference and Machine Learning.

Interests

Causal Inference
Machine Learning
Programming

Education

BS Economics, 2021

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Licentiate Economics, 2022

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Diploma of Specialization in Data Science for Social Sciences and Public Policy, 2022

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Top Skills

Python

Object Oriented Programming | Web Scraping

R

Dashboards | Machine Learning

Git/GitHub

Git commands

Stata

Econometrics | Manipulating Data

Linux

Linux commands

Analytics

Causal Inference and Machine Learning

Recent Experience

Research Consultant

Columbia University in The City of New York

Dec 2021 – Present

Working on a randomized controlled trial and a Machine Learning algorithm for reducing corruption
Research Consultant for Professors Michael Best (Columbia), Jonas Hjort (UCL) and Gaston Pierri (IADB)

Part-Time Teacher

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022

Machine Learning for Social Science: linear models, nonlinear models and deep learning
Advanced Applied Econometrics: causal inference methods and causal machine learning

Research Assistant

Public Ministry of Perú

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021

Analysis of different Peruvian databases
Quantitative evidence for decision-making in public policies

Academic Achievements

Licentiate Economics with Honors

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Feb 2022

Thesis approved unanimously with the outstanding mention

See certificate

Award for Academic Excellence - First Class Honors

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Aug 2021

First Class Honors. Rank in the Economics Department: 1 out of 70. Rank in the Faculty of Social Sciences: 1 out of 142

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Undergraduate Scholarship - Beca 18

Programa Nacional de Becas y Crédito Educativo Jul 2016

Scholarship for academic excellence

Projects

Last updated on May 30, 2022

Dashboards CGR

I created this dashboard for the Controlaría General de la República del Perú (CGR) in collaboration with Columbia University.

Last updated on May 30, 2022

Dashboards QLAB

Here you’ll find two dashboards I created for QLAB-PUCP.

Last updated on May 30, 2022

Econometrics Causality

This repository shows some coding my colleagues and I made for our Advanced Econometrics course for the Diploma of Specialization in Data Science for Social Sciences and Public Management - PUCP.

Last updated on May 30, 2022

Machine Learning using R

This repository shows some coding in R my colleagues and I made for our Machine Learning course for the Diploma of Specialization in Data Science for Social Sciences and Public Management - PUCP.

Last updated on May 30, 2022

Multidimensional Wellbeing in Peru

This repository provides the codes I created for my bachelor thesis called Assessing multidimensional well-being in Peru, An empirical operationalization of the capabilities approach through the estimation of Multiple Indicator and Multiple Cause Models . I used Survey on Multidimensional Wellbeing. This dataset was provided by Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de America Latina (IDHAL-PUCP).

Last updated on May 30, 2022

Paper replication RDD

I replicated some of the principal results of Lalive (2008), which uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD).

Last updated on Feb 6, 2022

Python scripts

Here you’ll find some Python codes me and my colleagues made for our Python course for the Diploma of Specialization in Data Science for Social Sciences and Public Management - PUCP.

Last updated on Feb 6, 2022

R scripts

Here you’ll find some R codes I made for my R course for the Diploma of Specialization in Data Science for Social Sciences and Public Management - PUCP.