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Basics
Name | Matías Villalba Ortega |
Label | Economist |
matias.villalba.ortega@gmail.com | |
Phone | +1(213)313-0998 |
Url | https://mvillalbao.github.io |
Summary | Graduated from Universidad del Pacífico with a Bachelor's degree in Economics, advised by Professors Alberto Chong and Edgar Castro on a thesis examining the impact of COVID-19 policies on the efficiency of public procurement. Passionate about academia and research, with interests in development economics, machine learning, and applied microeconomics. |
Work
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2025.03 - Present Remote
Consultancy in Data Analysis for Fiscal Program Evaluations
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Ongoing consultancy with the Fiscal Management Division (IFD/FMM), conducting data analysis to support the impact evaluation of multiple fiscal programs across the LAC region.
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2023.09 - 2024.12 Lima, Perú
Research Assistant to Manuel Barrón
Research Center of Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP)
Led the implementation of a randomized control trial assessing the impacts of homophily in student social networks.
- Designed and executed baseline and endline surveys using SurveyCTO.
- Performed data cleaning and analysis of administrative datasets (+250k observations) using Python and Stata.
- Prepared publication-quality tables in LaTeX, and developed informative data visualizations.
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2023.02 - 2025.01 Remote
Research Assistant to Edgar Castro
Independent
Worked on multiple concurrent projects in political economy, primarily focusing on impact evaluation studies analyzing the effects of COVID-19 policies in Colombia and Chile.
- Processed and analyzed large-scale government datasets (2M+ observations) using Python and Stata.
- Implemented web-scraping, OCR pipelines, and fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for data extraction.
- Recognized as co-author on multiple papers due to significant contributions; continued collaboration post-employment.
Education
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2022.02 - 2025.05 MicroMaster Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Data Analysis for Social Scientists
- Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations
- Microeconomics
- Foundations of Development Policy
- Political Economy and Economic Development
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2017.03 - 2024.06 Bsc in Economics
Universidad del Pacífico
- Causal Inference and ML
- Machine Learning for Economists
- Econometrics II
- Mathematics IV
Languages
Spanish | |
Native speaker |
English | |
Advanced, TOEFL iBT 108/120 |