Marcela Parada-Contzen

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. I received a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Economics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am also an elected board member of the Chilean Economic Association (SECHI).

My Google Scholar Profile is available here.

My research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, in the areas of Pension Economics and Retirement Income Policy, Economics of Risk and Uncertainty, and Health Economics. I work with large datasets of individual behavior to study life-cycle decision in the context of wealth accumulation.  I try to focus my research in the Chilean market and try to contribute to the design of public policies with scientific evidence.

My definitely favorite research topic is Pension Economics: I like to analyze individual behavior within systems, to study and help to design policies for improving pension outcomes, to perform ex-ante simulation of policy impacts, among others. 

In the last year, I have been exploring new research lines such as gender economics and empirical election polarization. I am also (very) recently exploring lines in migration and labor markets.