Ricardo is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. He studies economic development and agriculture using tools from international trade and spatial economics. His research focuses on policies that lift supply-side constraints to agricultural technology adoption. In his job market paper, Ricardo studies the arrival of patented crop technologies and its implications on productivity and development in sub-Saharan Africa. He obtained his master's and undergraduate degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman.