Daniel Peredo Siles is a Research Assistant at UNU-WIDER, where he contributes to the research area Reducing persistent inequalities across and within countries. His work focuses on inequalities within countries, with an emphasis on intergenerational mobility in education and income.
His research interests encompass economic behavior and development economics. Specifically, risky choice, beliefs and perceptions, social norms, and inequality, and how these factors shape economic decision-making, with a particular focus on developing countries.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Economics at Hanken School of Economics. His doctoral research examines how risky choice is influenced by preferences, intertemporal inconsistency, and beliefs, with the aim of contributing to consumer protection policies. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Geneva, where his master’s thesis analyzed heterogeneity in child schooling responses to a conditional cash transfer program in Bolivia.
Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked for five years at the Central Bank of Bolivia as a portfolio manager and investment analyst. More recently, he has also worked as research intern in impact evaluation at the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV), with a focus on the Finnish gambling market.