HHB welcomes Esteban Nicolini - Director of Centro de Investigaciones Económicas para el Desarrollo Humano at the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (both in Argentina) and Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) - as a HHB Researcher.
He has a Bachelor in History from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His main areas of interest are related to the interaction between economic development and the standards of living in the long run and his research has focused on population dynamics in pre-industrial England, inequality in 18th century Spain and real wages and regional inequality in 19-20th century Argentina. Some of his papers have been published in Explorations in Economic History, Revista de Historia Económica, European Review of Economic History and Economic History Review. He has developed applied research as a consultant for the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), UNICEF and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).