PhD candidate London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
n.v.tellez-lara@lse.ac.uk
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. I hold a Master’s degree in Economics from the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from LSE. I am also an Economics Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in the Agriculture and Rural Development Division.
My research studies how climate shocks reshape labour markets, with a focus on agricultural sectors, sectoral linkages, gender inequalities, and firm adjustment. My PhD thesis examines how droughts and climate related shocks affect labour supply, labour reallocation across sectors, contract quality, and firm dynamics, combining cross country evidence with worker and firm level microdata from Chile. My work also examines how the composition of agricultural support policies shapes labour market responses to climate shocks across advanced and developing economies.
Before starting my PhD, I worked on policy and research projects at Plan International UK, the National Evaluation and Productivity Commission in Chile, and the University of Chile. My previous work includes research on gender responsive climate change adaptation initiatives, regulatory quality in strategic economic sectors, and the financial impacts of free tuition policy in higher education.
Research interests: Labour economics, development economics, climate change, agricultural policy, gender inequalities, and quantitative methods.