Barbara Boggiano

Contact:  bboggiano@uahurtado.cl

As an applied microeconometrician by training, my research interests lie in gender issues, underrepresented peoples, and visible minorities studies. My published work has examined the long-term effects of armed conflict on intimate partner violence and the impact of air pollution on public healthcare costs in the UK. 

Strands of my current research span several fields. In education, I study the role of for-profit versus nonprofit management in shaping outcomes in Chile’s universal voucher system. In historical demography, I revisit the contested population losses of the Paraguayan War using newly digitised archival draft records. In household finance and ageing, I analyse how temporary income shocks affect the debt repayment behaviour of older adults in Canada. In poverty and social policy, I model and estimate the determinants of pet ownership as a demand for emotional goods under extreme scarcity. Finally, in crime and labour markets, I examine how media absence influences crime reporting and how high-skilled seasonal employment shapes women’s fertility decisions, respectively.

I joined the Department of Economics at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado as an Assistant Professor in August 2024. Before my current role, I was a  Mitacs Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Alberta and the Bank of Canada. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Economic Policy at the University of Potsdam and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE).