Guillermo Cruces

Guillermo Cruces (PhD in Economics, LSE) is the deputy director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (UNLP). He is also a researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and a research fellow at IZA. He is currently an advisor on development at the Treasury Ministry in Argentina, and the former Under-Secretary of Development at the same ministry.

His research is focused on labor economics and distributional analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean, and on the economics of perceptions and reference groups in general. He teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level at the Economics Department of the UNLP, and he is invited professor of labor economics at the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA), Argentina. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Development Studies and Economia. He has edited books and contributed to collective volumes and reports, and recently published the book Growth, Employment and Poverty in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2017, with G. Fields, D. Jaume and M. Viollaz).

He has worked previously for the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions and for the Development Studies Division of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has also been a researcher at STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained an MSc and a PhD in Economics, and a visiting scholar at Harvard’s DRCLAS and at University of California at Berkeley.

Social Studies (CEDLAS)

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Projects

Title Country Themes
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for ‎Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A Review Essay Argentina Labour markets and employment
SMS Campaign to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Take up in Tanzania Tanzania, United Republic of Health and nutrition
Cross-country analysis of financial inclusion and entrepreneurship in developing countries Argentina Financial inclusion
Simulations of policy responses and interventions to promote inclusive adaptation to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in Argentina Argentina Poverty and Inequality , Fiscal policy
Simulations of policy responses and interventions to promote inclusive adaptation to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in Ecuador Ecuador Health and nutrition
Local authorities and tax collection: Experimental evidence from Tanzania Tanzania, United Republic of Fiscal policy
Citizen participation and mobilization of local resources in Benin: The case of built and unbuilt property taxes Benin Fiscal policy
Low Take-up of Social Benefits and Financial Inclusion Argentina Financial inclusion , Social protection
Information, Price, and Barriers to Adoption and Usage of Mobile Money: Evidence from a Field Experiment in The Gambia Gambia Poverty and Inequality
Are there ethnic inequality traps in education? Evidence for Brazil and Chile. Latin America - subregion Poverty and Inequality , Education and training

Details

Dr Guillermo Cruces
Deputy director
Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Contact information:

Argentina
gcruces@cedlas.org
www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/cedlas/

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