I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Additionally, I am an NBER Faculty Research Fellow and a J-PAL Affiliate.

I am an applied microeconomist investigating policy-relevant topics in public finance, education, and development economics. My research examines how tax and social policies can reduce poverty and inequality and promote upward mobility. I use state-of-the-art empirical methods to identify constraints on governments’ redistributive capacity and to evaluate how targeted interventions can shape the life trajectories of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. My work focuses on Latin America—a region marked by acute inequality and persistent immobility—where high-quality administrative data and rich experimental or quasi-experimental policy variation enable credible causal inference.

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Email: j.londonovelez@econ.ucla.edu