Carlos Manuel Gradin Lago

Carlos Manuel Gradin Lago is a Full Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Vigo (Spain). His research focuses on the economics of inequality, poverty, and polarization, with a particular emphasis on poverty dynamics, income mobility, gender and ethnic economics, and issues related to developing countries.

His recent publications analyze inequality of opportunity in Chile, spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique, and the role of the middle class in income distribution. He has contributed to global inequality debates through work with institutions like UNU-WIDER and Oxford University Press. His research is characterized by innovative methodological approaches such as Shapley decomposition and recentered influence function techniques.

• Economics of Inequality
• Poverty Dynamics
• Gender and Ethnic Economics
• Developing Countries

His work spans comparative studies in China, India, South Africa, and Spain, addressing issues like racial income distribution, occupational segregation, and welfare policy. A notable award includes the IPUMS-International Research Award (2012). His research is disseminated through open-access publications in journals like World Development, Feminist Economics, and Journal of Economic Inequality.