Welcome to my website! I am a Research Fellow at Harvard University. I received a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics from the University of Chile. My research interests lie in the intersection of environmental, climate change, and energy economics; and applied and structural econometrics.
At University of Chile I was actively engaged as a teaching assistant for various courses and as a research assistant on several projects related to macroeconomics, health and environmental economics, among others.
Before joining Professor Alsan’s research team in the Health Inequality Lab, I was a research assistant in the Central Bank of Chile and the University of Chicago, and a researcher in the Latin American Center for Economic and Social Policies of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (CLAPES UC) where I worked on evaluating the fiscal costs of recent natural disasters such as the 2017 forest fires and 2023 floods.
Harvard University, 449 Taubman, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
ilara@fen.uchile.cl