Juan Nicolas Herrera La Rotta

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My committee members are Alisa Tazhitdinova, Youssef Benzarti and David Silver. 

My research lies at the intersection of public, urban and labor economics. 

One strand of my work examines the pass-through of value-added taxes into housing prices and how tax policy affects property characteristics and buyers’ and sellers’ behavior.

A second strand strand of my work studies how corporate taxation affects firm behavior, with a focus on employment and investment decisions. 

I am on the 2026-2027 job market.

You can contact me at jherreralarotta@ucsb.edu , find my Curriculum Vitae here and my Job Market Paper here.