Gastón P. Fernández

I am a third-year Ph.D. student 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).

I am an applied microeconomist 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 technological change on the demand for skills and labor market outcomes. To investigate these topics, I use methods ranging from structural econometrics to causal inference.

I am on the 2024/2025 academic job market.

Contact: gfernandez@kuleuven.be


Research interests:

  • Family economics
  • Child development
  • Technological change
  • References:

  • Frederic Vermeulen
  • Laurens Cherchye
  • Dirk Czarnitzki