Gastón P. Fernández

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Economics Department of KU Leuven. My advisors are Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen.

I visited the Department of Econometrics & Operations Research at Tilburg University (host: Alex Theloudis).

My research is on applied microeconomics. I am interested in the quantitative modeling of personal attributes within family dynamics, including resource allocation, skills formation, and marriage market outcomes. I also study the impact of external shocks on labor markets and their implications for household behavior. To investigate these topics, I use methods ranging from structural econometrics to causal inference.

I am on the 2024/2025 academic job market.

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Contact: gfernandez@kuleuven.be

References: Laurens Cherchye · Frederic Vermeulen · Edoardo Ciscato