Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán is a lead economist in the Africa region and global lead of the Data for Policy Global Solutions Group at the World Bank. Previously he was a senior economist in the Latin America and the Caribbean region of the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice. Before joining the bank, Carlos was a postdoctoral fellow at Brookings, and held short-term research positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and UN-ECLAC. He also worked for the Government of Mexico in the Ministry of Education.
He holds a bachelor's degree in economics, a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in public policy from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). He also holds a masters and doctorate in economics from Cornell University.
His main areas of interest are in public economics and development economics. His research focuses on growth, productivity and inequality analysis, efficiency and equity effects of market failures, labor market analysis, impact evaluation of fiscal and social policies, and vulnerability to shocks. He has published in peer reviewed academic journals, and he is the author of several World Bank books and policy reports.
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2019.
We use cookies to provide you with an optimal website experience. This includes cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site as well as cookies that are only used for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, you may not be able to use all of the site's functions.
Cookie settings
These necessary cookies are required to activate the core functionality of the website. An opt-out from these technologies is not available.
In order to further improve our offer and our website, we collect anonymous data for statistics and analyses. With the help of these cookies we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages on our website and optimize our content.