Carlos Villalobos
Dr. in Economics | Assistant Professor
Universidad de Talca, Chile
"Economics is not Causal it is Epistemic"
Dr. in Economics | Assistant Professor
Universidad de Talca, Chile
"Economics is not Causal it is Epistemic"
I am an economist specializing in poverty analysis, public finance, and development economics. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Göttingen, Germany, where my dissertation focused on economic inequality in Latin America, with emphasis on migration, education, and structural change. My research combines rigorous quantitative methods with applied policy analysis to address critical development challenges in Latin America and beyond.
Currently, I serve as Assistant Professor at Universidad de Talca, Chile, and maintain a teaching affiliation with Universität Heidelberg, Germany. My work has been published in leading international journals including Economic Policy and Analysis, Energy Policy, World Development, and Frontiers in Public Health. I have extensive experience as consultant for international organizations including the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, UNDP, and UNICEF.
Poverty measurement, monetary and multidimensional poverty, redundancy analysis
Fiscal capacity, unconditional transfers, flypaper effect
Energy poverty, cross-subsidy analysis, measurement redundancy
Emergency nutrition, malnutrition analysis, COVID-19 prevalence estimation
Income inequality, migration, impact evaluation of vocational training programs
Belief formation and adaptation in complex systems, epistemic health, system endogeneity
Household constraints and dysfunctional rural-urban migration
Economic Policy and Analysis, 78, pp. 1070-1088, 2023
Degree of association between healthcare indicators and poverty measures in Chile over the period 1992-2017
Revista Médica de Chile, 149(5), pp. 779-785, 2021
Energy poverty measures and the identification of the energy poor: A comparison between the utilitarian and multidimensional approaches in Chile
Energy Policy, 152, 112146 (May 2021)
Diverging identification of the poor: A non-random process. Chile 1992-2017
World Development, 130, 104944 (June 2020)
SARS-CoV-2 Infections in the World: An Estimation of the Infected Population and a Measure of How Higher Detection Rates Save Lives
Frontiers in Public Health, 8, p. 485, 2020
Distribution dynamics of Human Development in Mexico 1990-2010
Review of Income and Wealth, 62(S1), pp. 47-67, 2016
Economic Inequality in Latin America: Migration, Education, and Structural Change
Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2013
Series: Göttingen Studies in Development Economics (Edited by Hermann Sautter and Stephan Klasen)
2016 â Present
2012 â Present
2013 â 2015
Recent publications and news from leading journals in economics, development, and public health
Facultad de EconomÃa y Negocios
Universidad de Talca
Av. Lircay S/N
Talca, Chile
(+56) 9-5529-4180