Biography
Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim is a Research Economist at the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. He works with governments to help design, deliver and analyse randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental evaluations to inform policies aimed at improving welfare conditions and economic growth. Previously, he was a Research Officer at the Department of International Development at the LSE. Gonzalo has also worked as consultant for the World Bank, IFAD, UNICEF and Oxford Policy Management. He obtained a Masters in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Current areas of research include:
- Explaining the effects of the largest business support programme in the UK, which offered diagnostic support to all applicants and subsidised business advice to a group of randomly selected firms (with H.Overman and C. Riom).
- Understanding if the model of accelerators –intensive packages of support to startups- are effective at increasing participant’s outcomes (with H. Overman, O. Silva, M. Nathan and C. Riom).
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