CV - IEB - Universitat de Barcelona

NICOLAS GONZALEZ PAMPILLON
ADDRESS: Carrer Pintor Pahissa 20-22, 08034 Barcelona (Spain)
EMAIL: [email protected]
PHONE: +34 639560674
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Urban Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics and Applied Microeconometrics
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics candidate, Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Universitat de Barcelona
(UB), Spain: 2014 - present.
Master in Economics and Finance , Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI),
Spain: 2012 - 2014. Master Thesis: ”Retirement Plans of Europeans during the Economic Crisis:
Evidence from SHARE”, Advisor: Laura Crespo.
Diploma in Economics , School of Economics and Administration, Universidad de Montevideo
(UM), Uruguay: 2010 - 2012.
BA in Economics , School of Economics and Administration, Universidad de Montevideo (UM),
Uruguay: 2003 - 2008.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant in the study of health and retirement patterns using SHARE database at
CEMFI: July 2013 - September 2013
Research Assistant at Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (MIDES) (www.mides.gub.uy), Departamento de Evaluaci´
on y Monitoreo: August 2011 - August 2012
Research Assistant at Universidad de Montevideo (www.um.edu.uy), Centro de Investigaciones
en Econom´ıa Aplicada: August 2010 - August 2012
Senior Analyst at ANTEL (www.antel.com.uy): November 2007 - January 2009
Internship at ”Econom´ıa y Mercado”, newspaper: ”El Pa´ıs”, Uruguay: August 2008 - December
2008.
Internship at Universidad de Montevideo (www.um.edu.uy), School of Economics and Administration: August 2005 - August 2006
PUBLICATIONS
“Peer Effects in Risk Aversion,” with Ana Balsa and Nestor Gandelman, Risk Analysis, (forthcoming)
“Water Nationalization and Service Quality,” with Fernando Borraz and Marcelo Olarreaga, World
Bank Economic Review, World Bank Group, vol. 27(3), pp. 389-412, 2013.
“Polarization and the Middle Class,” with Fernando Borraz and Maximo Rossi, Latin American
Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Econom´ıa, Instituto de Econom´ıa. Pontificia Universidad Cat´
olica de Chile, vol. 50(2), pp 289-326, 2013.
“Economic and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Crime in Uruguay,” with Fernando Borraz,
Well-Being and Social Policy, vol 6, N´
um. 2, pp. 45-73, 2010.
“Impact of the Uruguayan Conditional Cash Transfer Program,” with Fernando Borraz, Latin Amer-
ican Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Econom´ıa, Instituto de Econom´ıa. Pontificia
Universidad Cat´
olica de Chile, vol. 46, pp. 243-271, 2009.
“PANES: Targeting and Impact,” with Fernando Borraz, Well-Being and Social Policy, vol 5, N´
um.
2, pp. 41-83, 2009.
“PANES: Focalizaci´
on e Impacto,” with Fernando Borraz, Revista de Ciencias Empresariales y
Econom´ıa (Universidad de Montevideo), a˜
no VII, pp. 73-110, 2008
WORKING PAPERS
“Peer Effects in Substance Use,” with Ana Balsa and Nestor Gandelman, 2012.
“Assessing the Distributive Effects of Minimum Wage,” with Fernando Borraz, 2011.
“Assessing the Distributive Impact of More than Doubling the Minimum Wage: The Case of
Uruguay,” with Fernando Borraz, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1711, Department of
Economics - dECON, 2011.
PRESENTATIONS
2011 - XXVI Annual Meeting of Economics, organized by the Central Bank of Uruguay - Montevideo, Uruguay. Paper presented: Polarization and the Middle Class in Uruguay.
2011 - Network of Inequality and Poverty (NIP) - Montevideo, Uruguay. Paper presented: Polarization and the Middle Class in Uruguay.
2011 - Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE 2011) - La Paz, Bolivia. Paper
presented: Water Nationalization: Network Access, Quality, and Health Outcomes.
2008 - XXIII Annual Meeting of Economics, organized by the Central Bank of Uruguay - Montevideo, Uruguay. Paper presented: PANES: Focalizaci´
on e Impacto.
2007 - XXII Annual Meeting of Economics, organized by the Central Bank of Uruguay - Montevideo, Uruguay. Paper presented: Cash transfer policy impact on education. The Uruguayan case:
Asignaciones Familiares.
REFEREE SERVICE
2013 The Journal of Economic Inequality
2013 The European Journal of Health Economics
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2014 - Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) scholarship to complete the PhD program in
Economics.
2012 - Fundaci´
on Carolina and Fundacion BBVA: Full scholarship to complete the MSc in economics
and finance at CEMFI.
2012 - “Premio Investigaci´
on 25 a˜
nos UM”, for working as a Research Assistant in the impact
evaluation of a privately managed tuition-free middle school in a poor neighborhood in Montevideo,
”Evaluaci´
on de impacto de un liceo autogestionado gratuito en un barrio de contexto cr´ıtico”.
2011 - Inter-American Award for Research on Social Security (first place): Assessing the Distributive Impact of More than Doubling the Minimum Wage: The Case of Uruguay.
2008 - Research Grant: National Prize of Economics Professor Ra´
ul Trajtenberg. Presented
Project: Inequidad salarial en Uruguay 1997-2007: una aplicaci´on de enfoques de descomposici´
on
(Wage inequality in Uruguay 1997-2007: a decomposition approach)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014 - Public Finance (undergraduate level)
2011 - Introductory course in STATA, Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING SKILLS
Mother tongue: Spanish
English: Excellent command of English language both oral and written IELTS test score (7.5)
Computer skills: STATA, MATLAB, GAUSS, E-VIEWS, SPSS, ARCGIS, SWP
COURSES
2012 - ”Taller sobre Armonizaci´
on de las Estad´ısticas de Pobreza en Am´erica Latina y el Caribe”
organized by Instituto Nacional de Estad´ıstica del Uruguay (INE) and Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Montevideo, Uruguay.
2011 - ”Curso Te´
orico-Pr´
actico sobre Mercados Laborales, Pobreza y Desigualdad en Am´erica
Latina” organized by Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata,
Argentina.
2009 - IELTS - Advanced Level at the Irish College of English (www.iceireland.com), Dublin,
Ireland.
VOLUNTARY WORK
2011 - Census of Homeless People (2011), organized by Instituto Nacional de Estad´ıstica (INE,
www.ine.gub.uy) and Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (MIDES, www.mides.gub.uy)
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Fernando Borraz
Banco Central del Uruguay
PHONE: +5982 1967 1513
EMAIL: [email protected]
Manuel Arellano
CEMFI
PHONE: +34 914290551
EMAIL: [email protected]
Juan Dubra
Universidad de Montevideo
PHONE: +5982 26042544
EMAIL: [email protected]
Samuel Bentolila
CEMFI
PHONE: +34 914290551
EMAIL: [email protected]

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