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General Information

Full Name Luis Fernando Serrudo Lázaro
Citizenship Bolivian
Languages Spanish, English

Education

  • 2023
    MSc. Economics.
    University of Chile
    • Thesis - The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage.
    • Supervisor - PhD. Esteban Puentes.
    • Methods.
      • Regression Discontinuity Design.
      • using Panel Microdata.
  • 2018
    B.S. Economics.
    Bolivian Catholic University
  • 2018
    Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods for Economic Analysis
    Bolivian Private University

Experience - Previous Appointments

  • 2022
    RA-Consultant - Country Economist Office
    Inter American Development Bank (IADB)
  • 2021-current
    Research Assistant
    Millenium Nucleus on the Evolution of Work (M-NEW)
    • Assistance to prof. Pablo Egana-delSol and Alejandro Micco
    • Support with Micro-Data collection and harmonization (Household, Enterprise and Labour Force Surveys) of several developed-ing countries, and estimations using panel data fixed effects and instrumental variables.
  • 2021
    Research Assistant
    Economics Department - University of Chile
    • Assistance to prof. Guillermo Le Fort and Rómulo Chumacero
    • Support with product-level data collection of UN-comtrade (web-scrapping) and causal inference estimations using panel, syntethic control methods and event studies.
  • 2019-2021
    Executive Editor
    Journal - Estudios de Economía
  • 2016-2017
    Assistant - Country Economist Office
    Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
    • Direction of Macroeconomics Studies
  • 2015-Current
    Associate Researcher
    Institute for Advenced Development Studies (INESAD) and IISEC-UCB
  • 2014-2022
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Chile and Bolivian Catholic University
    • Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics.

Open Source Projects

  • 2015-now
    al-folio
    • A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics.

Academic Interests

  • Development Economics
    • Automation of jobs.
    • Labor markets dynamics.
  • Macroeconomics.
    • Growth, cycles and economic policy.
    • Unemployment.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Basketball, Spinetta.