Sebastian Gallegos

Sebastian Gallegos is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Business School in Chile. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Economics at Princeton University. He previously served as Advisor to the Ministry of Education in Chile, Instructor of Economics at the Universidad de Chile, and Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C.

Gallegos’ research lies at the intersection of human capital and applied econometrics, with a focus on causal inference and policy evaluation. His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, and Economics of Education Review, among others. At DRCLAS, he will conduct research on the long-term causal impacts of pursuing master’s and PhD degrees abroad, examining effects on advanced human capital, labor market outcomes, and related human capital externalities.