Adolfo Fuentes Werlinger
Fourth Year PhD Student
- School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh
- LEAS, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
Contact details
- Email: A.I.Fuentes@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal website
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Room 4.12, 31 Buccleuch Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JT
Background
Adolfo holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Universidad de Chile and a M.Res. in economics from University College London. In addition, he worked for two years as PreDoctoral Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Publicos (Center for Public Studies), a Chilean think tank focused on public policy. There, he wrote academic articles and public policy briefs focusing mainly on Chile's macroeconomic and labor market issues.
He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh, where his fields of specialization are labor economics and macroeconomics. He is also a research associate at the Laboratory of Surveys and Social Analysis (LEAS) hosted by Universidad Adolfo Ibañez.
CV
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Qualifications
M.Res. in Economics - University College London.
M.A. in Economics - Universidad de Chile.
B.A. in Economics - Universidad de Chile.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Research Associate - Laboratory of Surveys and Social Analysis, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez.
Undergraduate teaching
Topics in Macroeconomics (21/22, 22/23 and 23/24)
Economics 1 (21/22)
Postgraduate teaching
Research Methods in Macroeconomics (22/23 and 23/24)
Macroeconomics 2 (22/23 and 23/24)
Numerical Bootcamp (21/22, 22/23 and 23/24)
Research summary
Adolfo's primary research interest lies between labor economics and macroeconomics. Specifically on how frictions affect the labor market and how labor outcomes, such as wages, informality, and unemployment, can be affected by changes in the minimum wage, changes in the skill composition of workers, and increases in social security contributions.
As a secondary interest, Adolfo is interested in how people's social capital influences different aspects of life, such as labor market outcomes, health, and voting behavior, and how some environmental aspects, such as inequality, can ameliorate these relationships.
Affiliated research centres
Participant
2024
Conference - European Association of Labour Economists
Conference - Spanish Association of Labour Economists
Conference - Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics
Conference - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
Conference - Scottish Economic Society
Conference - Ruhr Graduate School of Economics
2023
Workshop - Policy Evaluation (MIPP - Universidad de Chile)
Workshop - Gender and labor market mismatch (LM2C2 - P. Universidad Católica de Chile)
Conference - Chilean Public Policy Society (x2)
Conference - Royal Economic Society for PhD Students
Conference - World Association for Public Opinion Research
Conference - European Survey Research Association
Workshop - Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (University of Manchester)
2022
Conference - Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics
Workshop - Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (Utrecht University)
2021
Workshop - Digital Worker Inquiry (University of Edinburgh)
2020
Workshop - COVID-19 Work in Progress (University of Southern California)
Seminar - Centro de Estudios Públicos
Conference - World Association for Public Opinion Research
Conference - Chilean Public Policy Society
2019
Conference - Chilean Public Policy Society
Peer-reviewed Articles
2021 - “Personal income tax in Chile: Simulations with other countries’ structure” (only abstract in English) with Rodrigo Vergara. Estudios Públicos 161: 69-111.
2020 - “On social capital and health: The moderating role of income inequality in comparative perspective” with Ricardo Gonzalez and Esteban Muñoz, International Journal of Sociology 50(1): 68-85.
2019 - “The value of personal connections: Resource generator and labor market in Chile”, Estudios Públicos 156: 69-105.
2018 - “The public wage premium and its evolution in the period 1990-2017” (only abstract in English) with Rodrigo Vergara, Estudios Públicos 152: 7-45.
Book Chapters
2019 - “The immigrants in the labor market” (in Spanish) with Rodrigo Vergara, in Isabel Aninat and Rodrigo Vergara (Eds.) Immigration in Chile. A multidimensional view, pp. 65-99. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
2019 - “Statistical characterization of immigration in Chile” (in Spanish) with Andrés Hernando, in Isabel Aninat and Rodrigo Vergara (Eds.) Immigration in Chile. A multidimensional view, pp. 379-407. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Economics Graduate Research Scholarship - University of Edinburgh (2024-2025)
Alexis de Tocqueville Award - WAPOR (2023)
Ph.D. Scholarship - Chilean Government (2020-2024)
Ph.D. Scholarship - Fulbright Commission (2019-2020)
M.A. Scholarship - Chilean Government (2014-2015)
Academic Excellence Scholarship - M.A. in Economics, Universidad de Chile (2014-2015)
Academic Excellence Award (x4) - B.A. in Economics, Universidad de Chile (2009-2013)