Facundo Alvaredo

Facundo Alvaredo is an economist affiliated with the Paris School of Economics (PSE) as an Associate Professor and with École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) as a Lecturer. His work focuses on inequality measurement, wealth distribution, and economic history, particularly in Latin America and Europe.

Research Areas

• Public economics
• Economics of inequality
• Economic history
• Development and distribution economy

Key Publications analyze wealth inequality via estate data, reconcile survey and tax data for inequality measurement, and study long-term dynamics of income and wealth concentration. His methodological contributions include validating estate multiplier techniques and addressing shadow economy estimation challenges.

Collaborations include Tony Atkinson and Emmanuel Saez, with publications in journals like Journals of the European Economic Association and Oxford Open Economics. He contributes to databases such as the World Top Incomes Database, enabling cross-country inequality comparisons.