Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Felipe Kast

Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy School of Government

Felipe's research interests include the poverty dynamic and its relation with social policy, particularly the measurement of poverty mobility through panel data and the study of the deep determinants of poverty’s inflows and outflows, the study of institutional arrangements in the labor market (e.g., contracts, insurances) that can reduce income variability among poor households. Some of his more general topics of interest include social policy, program evaluation, labor markets, development and regulation.