PhD Joaquín Prieto

PhD Joaquín Prieto

Visiting Fellow, LSE
Researcher, UChile
Consultant, ECLAC

Welcome

Hi! I am a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute (III) at the LSE, and I currently work as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Government at the University of Chile, where I am also responsible for the Diploma in Advanced Methods in Statistics and Data Science. In addition, I work as a consultant for ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), focusing on issues of multidimensional inequality within the Social Development Division.

My current work focuses on four lines of research aimed at expanding and developing new economic and social well-being measures to help design better policies that guide emerging countries towards more inclusive and sustainable development. These research lines are: i) forward-looking well-being measures, such as vulnerability to poverty and economic insecurity; ii) the comparative study of welfare state regimes and regional development; iii) the dynamics between the public and private sectors in shaping labour markets; and iv) the use of data science to inform government and public policy, with a focus on evidence-based policy evaluation.

I obtained a PhD in Social Policy at LSE. In addition, I hold a BA in Industrial Engineering, an MSc in Economy and Environmental Management and postgraduate studies in Sociology from Universidad Católica in Chile. Before joining LSE International Inequalities Institute, I founded and directed the Social Observatory at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile (specialized in longitudinal data for social policy design, implementation and monitoring). Complementarily, I have worked as a consultant for the OECD, I-ADB, ILO, ECLAC, and Rand Corporation and as a research fellow at Lincoln Institute Land Policy.

I am a member of the WAPLAC Network (Welfare and Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean), of Quality of Employment group of the III at LSE, of WEIPO (Wellbeing, Inequality, Poverty and Public Policy group in the Department of Economics at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain) and the Work and Employment Thematic Group of the Human Development & Capability Association.

Research interests: Emerging welfare architectures; data-driven policy innovation; dynamic and multidimensional approaches to poverty and inequality in global development contexts; economic security in a changing world of work; regional inequalities and spatial disparities; cross-national approaches to social protection; collaborative public-private governance in evolving labour markets; public sector innovation.

You can find my full CV here

Recent updates

Publications

Prieto, J. & Hoffmeister, L. (2025). Towards better measurement of financial risk protection in health expenditure: the case of Chile. Value in Health Regional Issues Early view: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vhri.2025.101086

Carranza, R., Prieto, J., & Sehnbruch, K. (2025). Job loss and earnings inequality: Distributional effects from re-employment in Chile. Economic Analysis and Policy. Early view: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2025.02.021

Prieto, J. (2024). Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile. Journal of Economic Inequality, 22, 1069–1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-023-09611-8

Prieto, J., Sehnbruch, K., & Vidal, D. (2024). A dynamic counting approach to measure multidimensional deprivations in jobs. Applied Economics Letters, 31(10), 907–912. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2156460

Presentations

Conferences

  1. Why does subjective socio-economic insecurity remain so high in Latin America? Revisiting the question during the 2000-2024 period. SASE 2025, Montreal, 10 July 2025; MPSA 2025, Chicago, 4 April 2025.
  2. Understanding income buffers after a formal employment loss: The role of the informal employment and the unemployment insurance in Chile. III International Conference: Labour Transitions and Income Dynamics in Latin America, Buenos Aires, 6 December 2024.
  3. Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile. 2do Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales y Gobierno (La Triada), Santiago, 14 November 2024.
  4. The robots are coming for our jobs: Technological anxiety, economic Insecurity, and support for Democracy in Latin America. 38th IARIW General Conference, London, 27 August 2024; MPSA 2024, Chicago, 5 April 2024; SASE 2024, Limerick, 20 June 2024.
  5. Cumulative precariousness: Re-examining the capability approach to work. SASE 2024, Limerick, 20 June 2024.
  6. How does vulnerability to poverty affect subjective well-being in Chile?: A secure middle-class perspective. XII Congreso Chileno de Sociología, 4 May 2024.

Workshops

  1. Income buffers after a formal employment loss: The role of the informal employment and the unemployment insurance in Chile”. 1st WAPLAC workshop, San José Costa Rica, 11 May 2024.
  2. A Step-by-Step Approach to: Measuring Economic Insecurity. CLACS, University of Illinois, 10 April 2024.

Talks

  1. Vulnerability Metrics. Mesa Temática de Trabajo del Futuro, Comisión Desafíos del Futuro del Senado de Chile, Santiago, 5 August 2024.
  2. The robots are coming for our jobs: Technological anxiety, economic Insecurity, and support for Democracy in Latin America. PEEI Seminar of the Faculty of Government of the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 9 July 2024.
  3. Job loss and earnings inequality. Mesa Temática de Trabajo del Futuro, Comisión Desafíos del Futuro del Senado de Chile, Santiago, 2 July 2024.
  4. Vulnerability Metrics: Redefining Welfare in LAC. CLACS, University of Illinois, 10 April 2024.