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Contact Information

• Address: Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Calle 19A No 1-37 Este, W-913, Bogotá, Colombia.
• e-mail: man-fern@uniandes.edu.co

Current Position

• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, 2019-present.

Education

• D.Phil., Economics, University of Oxford, 2018
• M.Phil., Economics, University of Oxford, 2014
• M.Sc., Economics, Universidad de los Andes, 2011
• B.A., Economics, Universidad de los Andes, 2008

Teaching Experience

• Advanced Econometrics, Universidad de los Andes. 2020-present.
• Introductory Macroeconomics, Universidad de los Andes. 2022-present.
• M.Sc. Thesis Seminar, Universidad de los Andes. 2019, 2020.
• Econometrics I, Universidad de los Andes. 2015.

Previous Positions

• Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and The Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK, 2017-2019.
• Extended-Term Consultant, Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America, The World Bank.

Publications and Accepted Papers

• Bhalotra, S., Muhlrad, H., Clarke, D. and Fernández, M. US Presidential Party Switches Are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality. BMJ Global Health, forthcoming.

• Astebro, T., Fernández, M., Lovo, S. and Vulkan, N. (2024) Herding in Equity Crowdfunding. The RAND Journal of Economics, 55(3), pp. 403-441.

• Bhalotra, S. and Fernández, M. (2024) The Rise in Women’s Labour Force Participation in Mexico: Supply vs Demand Factors. The World Bank Economic Review, 38(2), pp. 319-350.

• Fernández, M. and Serrano, G. (2024) Earnings Inequality in Latin America: A Three-Decade Retrospective. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press.

• Fernández, M. and Messina, J. (2018) Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America. Journal of Development Economics, 135, pp. 555-573.

• Vulkan, N., Astebro, T. and Fernández, M. (2016) Equity Crowdfunding: A New Phenomena. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Volume 5, pp 37-49.

• Fernández, M., Ibáñez, A. M. and Peña, X. (2014) Adjusting the Labor Supply to Mitigate Violent Shocks: Evidence from Rural Colombia. The Journal of Development Studies, 50(8), pp. 1135-1155.

• Fernández, M. (2012) Violencia y Derechos de Propiedad: El Caso de La Violencia en Colombia. Ensayos Sobre Política Económica, 30(69), pp. 113-147.

Book Chapters

• Bardey, D., Fernández, M. and Gravel, A. (2025) Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at least) in the Short Run? Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19, Chapter 3, pp 35-52.

• Fernández, M., Pérez-Reyna, D. and Zuleta, H. (2022) Productividad de los bancos. In H. J. Gómez, A. Vera and M. Germán, eds. Lecturas Sobre Moneda y Banca en Colombia, Asobancaria, pp. 222-271.

• Fernández, M., Ibáñez, A. M., Hernández, C. and Jaramillo, C. Dinámicas Provinciales de Pobreza en Colombia 1993-2005. In F. Benito and J. Berdegué, eds. Los Dilemas Territoriales del Desarrollo en América Latina, Universidad de los Andes, pp. 187-210.

• Bhalotra, S., Fernández, M. and Venkataramani, A. The Right Tail and the Right Tale: Women and Skill in Mexico. In S. Polanchek, K. Tasiramos and K. Zimmerman, eds. Gender Convergence in the Labor Market. Research in Labor Economics, Vol 41, Emerald Publishing Group, pp. 299-341.

Professional Activities

• Referee for
  • Economic Development and Cultural Change, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Latin American Economic Review, Management Science, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economics of the Household

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

• Invited to participate in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings as one of 373 young economists selected from 60 countries, 2020
• Labor Share and lnequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (US$ 20,000), Inter-American Development Bank - IADB, 2019
• Research Engagement Fund (\pounds 10,000), Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), University of Essex, 2019, 2020
• Final-Year Departmental Doctoral Bursary and Graduate Teaching Assistantship. University of Oxford, 2016-2017
• Economics Department Doctoral Studentship, University of Oxford, 2014-2016

Seminar and conference presentations

• VII Congreso de Economía Colombiana, Bogotá, 2022.
• Universidad de los Andes. Seminario de Políticas Públicas (virtual), 2021.
• UNU-WIDER (virtual), 2021.
• Banco de la República de Colombia. (virtual), 2020.
• European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). Bath, UK, 2019.
• Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) Annual Meetings, 2017, 2019, 2022.
• Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Economics Seminar Series. Bonn, Germany, 2019.
• Universidad de Los Andes. Economics Seminar Series. Colombia, 2019.
• Universidad del Rosario. Economics Seminar Series. Colombia, 2019.
• Paris School of Economics. Labour and Public Economics Seminar Series. Paris, France, 2018.
• IZA and World Bank Jobs \& Development Conference, Bogot'a, Colombia, 2018.
• Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) Annual Meetings, Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
• University of Essex. Seminar Series. Colchester, UK, 2016.
• University of Oxford. Seminar Series. Oxford, UK, 2016.
• The World Bank. Workshop on Earnings Inequality. Washington DC, USA, 2015.