Marcos E. Gómez Ph.D
Economist
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I hold the professional title of Economist from the University of Chile and a Master’s degree in Management and Public Policy from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), Chile. I received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in 2015. My doctoral dissertation focused on youth unemployment and was supervised by Dr. John Knowles.
I have also completed one year-long postgraduate diploma programs at UAI: the Diploma in Business Analytics (2021), offered by the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences (FIC), and the Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2023), offered by the UAI Center for Learning. I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the FIC.
I. Current Position and Research Interests
I am an Associate Professor (research track) at the Business School of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile.
My research integrates labor economics, macroeconomic dynamics, quantitative methods, and organizational behavior. My earlier work focused on youth unemployment, directed search models, and the application of structural equation modeling with longitudinal data.
More recently, my research has focused on the Economics of Subjective Well-Being, examining prosocial behavior, meaning in life, psychological needs, gratitude, and their implications for organizational performance and human flourishing. I am also developing a new research agenda on causal inference, with the aim of strengthening the methodological foundations of my empirical work.
II. Selected Publication
Gómez, M., Espejo, A., Martela, F., Bastías, C., Bravo, D., & Unanue, W. (2024). The virtuous cycle of prosocial behavior and perceived prosocial impact in organizations: A longitudinal three-wave study. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 33(4), 462–473. This paper received the BALAS President’s Award for Best Academic Paper at the 2020 BALAS Conference.
Martela, F., Gómez, M., Unanue, W., Araya, S., Bravo, D., & Espejo, A. (2021). What makes work meaningful? Longitudinal evidence for the importance of autonomy and beneficence for meaningful work. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 131, 103631.
Martela, F., Unanue, J., Gómez, M., & Unanue, W. (2024). Reciprocal relations between meaning in life, beneficence, and psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness: Evidence from a three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(3), 28.
Gómez, M., Medina, J. P., & Valenzuela, G. (2019). Unveiling the objectives of central banks: Tales of four Latin American countries. Economic Modelling, 76, 81–100.
III. Awards and Recognitions
I received the Award for Academic Excellence at the Business School of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in 2024, 2019, 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005. In 2008, I also received the Best Professor Award at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
In 2023, 2024, 2025. and 2026, I received the Undergraduate Commitment and Purpose Award from the Business School, in recognition of my teaching, my commitment to undergraduate education, and my outreach work with high school students.
IV. Professional Experience
Before joining academia, I worked as an Advisor to the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile between 2000 and 2002, where I contributed to work in education economics and government programming.
Between 1997 and 1999, I worked at the Chile XXI Foundation in the area of economic analysis.
V. Contact
Should you wish to contact me, please send an email to the following address:
Should you wish to contact me, please send an email to the following address:
e-mail (personal): m.e.gomez@icloud.com
The picture is an aerial view of the graduate building of Adolfo Ibáñez University.
The picture is an aerial view of the graduate building of Adolfo Ibáñez University.
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