Rodrigo Sánchez Sienra

Welcome! I am a PhD candidate at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), University of Lausanne. My dissertation, titled Institutions, Public Opinion, and Inequality, is supervised by Flavia Fossati.

Before starting my PhD, I was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab at ETH Zürich (2021–2023), supervised by Dominik Hangartner. I hold an MA in Economics from Central European University and a BA in Economics from Kansas State University.

My research interests lie in causal inference, immigration, and education policy. I study how institutions and public opinion shape inequality, with a focus on immigrant integration and educational tracking systems.