Biography

Matías Ciaschi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at INET Oxford, Senior Researcher at CEDLAS and Visiting Fellow at The International Inequalities Institute at LSE, specializing in applied microeconomics. He has also worked as consultant for major international organizations including the World Bank, OECD, IDB, CAF, and UNU-WIDER. His work centers on social mobility, focusing on how economic inequality evolves and how opportunities are passed between generations. He also studies the impact of economic shocks on labor markets, education, and poverty.

Research Areas

Economic inequality

Programme Teams

Economics, Inequality & Opportunity (EIO)

Related Projects

Employment, Equity and Growth

This research programme supported by the Resolution Foundation showed that while rich countries have faced common challenges in an era of globalization and rapid technological change, institutions and policy responses mattered in the extent improvements in incomes and living standards were shared.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth

This project supported by the Nuffield Foundation investigated patterns of wealth transfer across generations in Great Britain compared with other rich countries and the implications for wealth inequality and taxation.

Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts

Building bridges between distributional data from micro sources and national accounts aggregates to provide estimates of the distribution of income and wealth consistent with macroeconomic national accounts, in collaboration with the Paris School of Economics and University of California-Berkeley.