Joaquin Mayorga Camus

Joaquín is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE and a Research Assistant at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC). He holds a BSc in Economics and a Master’s in Economic Analysis, both from the University of Chile, and an MSc in Economics from the University of Groningen.

His PhD research focuses on the economic well-being of disabled people and their household members in Chile, studying the spillover effects of disability on employment and mental health outcomes for non-disabled co-residents, the additional costs that disability imposes on households, and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the employment of both disabled individuals and their household members.

At CPEC, his work involves two key projects: one updating projections for adult social care in England, which includes maintaining simulation models, analysing data, and producing estimates of future demand and costs to inform government spending reviews and policy planning; and another on Community Health Services (CHS), analysing linked NHS data to understand service use by adults, how it interacts with hospital care, and producing demand projections to support policy development, planning, and efforts to improve service integration and health equity.

Before starting his PhD, Joaquín worked as a study analyst in the Social Policies Division of the Ministry of Social Development of Chile, managing and analysing large-scale administrative data to support the continuous improvement of the Social Household Registry. This is the main system used by the Chilean state to identify households’ socioeconomic vulnerability and target social programmes and initiatives. There, he had the opportunity to work and partner with different government institutions, such as the National Disability Service, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Education, in order to strengthen the quality and legitimacy of the social protection system.

Prior to that, Joaquín worked as an instructor in the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile, teaching undergraduate courses in macroeconomics and professional training courses in data analysis and programming. He also held a position as research coordinator of a large-scale randomised controlled trial aimed at analysing the financial behaviour of low-income individuals and proposing effective ways to reduce loan delinquency and over-indebtedness.

Research interests: Disability, Social care, Labour economics, Public health.

Supervisors: Professor Stephen Jenkins and Professor Lucinda Platt.