Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero
PhD student
Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
WIL Central America Coordinator World Inequality Lab
CES-Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne – 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris
a.zuniga-cordero at psemail.eu
Research groups:
Globalization, Political Economy, Trade
- Political Economy and Institutions
- International Trade and Trade policy
- Demography and Migrations
- Structural Change, Inequalities and Development
Thesis Supervisor: RESHEF Ariell
Academic year of registration: 2018/2019
Thesis title: Three essays on income inequality in Costa Rica
Publications
- Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. et al. World Inequality Report 2022, World Inequality Lab. (Contributor).
- “Chapter 15: Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, with O. Barrera, A. Leiva & C. Martínez-Toledano, in: A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano & T. Piketty (eds.), Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A study of fifty democracies, 1948-2020, Harvard University Press, 2021 (published in French by EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil in April 2021).
Working Papers
- Distributional National Accounts Costa Rica: inequality measures from the national to the local level, 2000-2020.
- Globalization, income inequality and political realignment: the transition from a two-party to a multi-party electoral system in Costa Rica.
Work in progress
- Working with “others”: the effect of foreign-born workers on the electoral behaviour of their local-born co-workers in Costa Rica.
Changes in the offer of higher education and labour market outcomes: the effect of regional university campuses in Costa Rica (2000-2020).