Jon Moreno-Medina

Jon Moreno-Medina is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), affiliated with the Alvarez College of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University, an M.S. from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and a B.A. from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research focuses on urban, public, and media economics, with additional expertise in development economics and political economy. He also employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning tools in his work.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, Duke University
• M.S. in Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain
• B.A. in Economics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Research interests span urban economics (e.g., housing markets, segregation), crime economics (weather impacts, media framing of police violence), and migration policy. His recent work includes analyzing the Venezuelan migrant crisis, media bias in crime reporting, and the interplay between weather, religion, and criminal activity.

Teaching includes graduate courses on causal inference and machine learning, alongside undergraduate classes in public economics and econometrics. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but his research has been published in top journals like the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Advising and grants: No formal student advisee list provided, though his teaching and research imply active involvement in mentoring. No grants mentioned in the text.

He is based at the Alvarez College of Business, UTSA, with a focus on applied microeconomics at the intersection of crime, urban development, and media analysis.