Cristhian Molina
Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCristhian Molina is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (expected May 2026) with 11 years of research and teaching experience focused on Labor Economics and the Economics of Education. He specializes in applying quasi-experimental methods to large administrative datasets to evaluate policy effectiveness and uncover strategic responses to incentives. As a teaching assistant for microeconomics courses and a research assistant for multiple faculty, he combines rigorous empirical skills in R, Stata, and Python with applied machine learning to build and clean complex datasets. His background in industrial and systems engineering (MS, MEng, BE) gives him a strong quantitative and systems-oriented approach to empirical problems that often yields practical, policy-relevant insights. Based in Champaign, IL, he is known for bridging methodological rigor with clear pedagogical communication.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Systems Engineering, Distinction in grad exams, Master of Engineering - MEng, Systems Engineering, Distinction in grad exams at Universite de LorraineMaster of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering, Maximum distinction in grad exams, Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering, Maximum distinction in grad exams at Universidad de Santiago de ChileDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (39)
leaflet9
que9
documentos8
javascript7
php-application7
maps7
cloudinary6
php6
angularjs6
micro-framework5
apache-cordova5
typescript5
cordova4
nodejs4
cloudinary-sdk4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LearningTools/navegador-archivos-php
Sep 2014 - Sep 2018
Es un explorador de archivos, que se puede cargar en una carpeta en algún lugar de su sitio web y compartir documentos
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years
sitiounaalgquedocumentos
LearningTools/LearningTools.github.io
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:207 pushes in 2 years 2 months
reactweb-application
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