Andrés Barrios-Fernández
- Former PhD student (JM 2019)
About
Andrés is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Universidad de los Andes (Chile), where he directs the Human Development Lab. He is a research affiliate at IZA, CEPR, and LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance. He started in engineering at PUC-Chile (BSc 2009, MSc 2010), then moved to economics at LSE (MRes 2015, PhD 2019). After his PhD he was a senior researcher at the VATT Institute in Helsinki and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before returning to Chile. His research is in labor and education economics, with a focus on peer effects and access to higher education. He completed his PhD as Christopher’s student and they remain close collaborators on the AER paper on elite universities and intergenerational transmission of human and social capital and on the multi-country STEM gender-gap study.
Background
- Labor Economics
- Economics of Education
- Peer Effects
- Economics of Crime
Education
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PhD, Economics
· London School of Economics and Political Science (2019)
Essays in Economics of Education - MSc, Engineering · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2010)
- MRes, Economics · London School of Economics and Political Science (2015)
- BSc, Engineering · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2009)
Career
- Director, Human Development Lab, Universidad de los Andes (Chile) (2024–present)
- DRCLAS Luksic Scholar, Harvard University (2025)
- Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes, School of Business and Economics (Chile) (2022–present)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Department of Economics (2021–2022)
- Senior Researcher, VATT Institute of Economic Research (Helsinki) (2019–2021)
Career data last refreshed 2026-05-03 from the PhD-placements project.
Joint work with Christopher
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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries*
Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 2021) · 2021 · 179 cites
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Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital
American Economic Review (Conditionally Accepted) · 2024
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The STEM Major Gender Gap: Evidence from Coordinated College Application Platforms Across Five Continents
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