About
Harald Beyer (full name Harald Ricardo Beyer Burgos) is a Chilean economist who holds a business administration degree from Universidad de Chile and a PhD in economics from UCLA, and who served as Chile’s Minister of Education (2011-2013), director of the Centro de Estudios Publicos (2014-2018), and Rector of Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (2018-2024). His research focuses on education policy, income inequality, and labor markets in Chile. He is a coauthor with Christopher Neilson on ‘Connecting Student Loans to Labor Market Outcomes: Policy Lessons from Chile’ (with Justine Hastings and Seth Zimmerman).
Background
- Economics of education
- Education policy
- Labor economics
- Income inequality
Education
- PhD, Economics · University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- BSc, Business Administration · Universidad de Chile
Career
- Researcher, later Deputy Director, Centro de Estudios Publicos (CEP) (1987-2011)
- Minister of Education, Government of Chile (2011-2013)
- Director, Centro de Estudios Publicos (CEP) (2014-2018)
- Rector, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (2018-2024)
Joint work with Christopher
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Connecting Student Loans to Labor Market Outcomes: Policy Lessons from Chile
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, May 2015 (pp. 508–513) · 2015
In Christopher's network
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