Education
Biography
Sebastian Galiani is the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Economics at Tulane University. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and works broadly in the field of Economics. He is a member of the Argentine National Academy of Economic Science, and Fellow of the NBER and BREAD. Sebastian was Secretary of Economic Policy, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Treasury, Argentina, between January 2017 and June 2018.
Sebastian is the editor of Economia, the Journal of the Latin American Economic Association, and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Latin American Economic Review. He published papers in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Review of Economics and Statistics, among others.
Sebastian’s work has been featured in Science, The NBER Digest, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Magazine, Slate, and many other newspapers and magazines around the world. He received the Konex Diploma in Development Economics (2006–2016). He has also worked as consultant for Gates Foundation, United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, and several governments around the world.
Current Projects and/or Research Interests
- AI and the future of education
- Institutions and Geopolitics
- Structural Modelling Validation
Selected Publications
- “Estimating neighborhood choice models: Lessons from a housing assistance experiment.” American Economic Review, Volume 105, 2015, pages 3385–3415 (with A. Murphy and J. Pantano).
- “The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 122, 2007, pages 209–241 (with R. Di Tella and E. Schargrodsky).
- “Water for life: The impact of the privatization of water supply on child mortality.” Journal of Political Economy, Volume 113, 2005, pp. 83–120 (with P. Gertler and E. Schargrodsky).