Applied Microeconomics Seminar - Nov 28th, 2024

Juliana Londoño-Velez is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 2019. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), an Affiliated Professor at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), and an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

She is an applied economist specialising in poverty, inequality, and redistributive tax and transfer policies. She often collaborates with government partners in Latin America, utilizing large-scale administrative datasets to connect academic research with practical policy implications. In 2022 she was awarded a United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) grant and joined the network of international researchers on the project Detecting and countering illicit financial flows.

Juliana Londoño-Velez's website

She will present a paper, joint with Estefanía Saravia, at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

The Impact of Denying a Wanted Abortion on Women and Children

The next Applied Microeconomics Seminar will host Manisha SHAH (UC Berkeley) on December 5th.