Rafael de la Vega is a third-year full-time PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT. He has a background in industrial engineering and economics, and has experience as a lecturer in undergraduate and MBA courses and as a researcher/consultant in a broad scope of industrial engineering projects at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj). His thesis investigates the connections between structural change and income inequality. For the first chapter, he is working on a meta-analysis on the evidence about how changes in the sectoral composition of an economy affect its level of inequality.

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	Selected publications by Rafael Consentino de la Vega
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Consentino de la Vega, Rafael, 2023, Structural change and income inequality: a meta-analysis, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2023-046
External working papers
Kalubowila, Palindi, Sinja Buri, Ine Lietaert, Jennifer Denno Cissé, Judy Backhouse, Teresa Janz, Dan Jezreel A. Orendain, Robert Oakes, Rafael Consentino de la Vega, Claudia Fry, Stephan Dietrich & Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola, 2024, How Can Urban Governance Better Respond to Climate Risks in the Global South? A Multi-Disciplinary Review, UNU-CRIS Working Paper No 2024-02, More information