Job Market Practice Talk: Camilo Abbate, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Location
North Hall 2111
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Biography
Camilo is a PhD student in Economics at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to coming to UCSB he earned his undergraduate degree in Economics at Universidad de Asuncion - Paraguay.
Camilo research focuses broadly on Development and Political Economy. His primary interest is in the decentralization of government in developing countries and the key role that intergovernmental transfers play. After doing his MA at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina, Camilo became passionate about Causal Inference and taught several statistics and economic classes both at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in Argentina and Paraguay before pursuing his Ph.D. at UCSB.
Preliminary Title
"Decentralization and Governmental Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Paraguay"
