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Hi! I am a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute (III) at the LSE and responsible for the Diploma in Advanced Methods in Statistics and Data Science of the Faculty of Government of the University of Chile.

My current work focuses on three lines of research aimed at expanding and developing new economic and social well-being measures to design better policies that could lead 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) spatial measures of inequality, such as the geography of opportunity; iii) labour market development measures, such as quality of employment.

I am a member of the WAPLAC Network (Welfare and Policy in Latin America and the 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.

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 post-graduate 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, and Rand Corporation and as a research fellow at Lincoln Institute Land Policy.

Research interests: Poverty dynamics and income mobility; Longitudinal survey methodology and survey quality; Well-being and welfare states development; Geography of opportunity and spatial analysis; Inequality and labour markets; Applied micro-econometrics and social policies.

You can find my full CV here

Recent updates

81st Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, 04-07 April 2024.

1st WAPLAC workshop. San José Costa Rica, 09-10 May 2024.

54th Poetry International Festival. Rotterdam, 07-09 June 2024.

SASE. Limerick. 27-29 June 2024.

38th IARIW General Conference. London, 26-30 August 2024.

Prieto, J. (2024). Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile. Journal of Economic Inequality Early view: 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