Valentina Gabrielli

Maria Valentina Gabrielli is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Paris School of Economics, where she is supervised by François Bourguignon and Carlos Winograd. Her doctoral research focuses on intergenerational mobility, with a particular emphasis on new evidence for Latin America. She holds an MSc in Public Policy and Development from the Paris School of Economics and a BSc in Economics from Torcuato Di Tella University.

Her professional experience spans international organizations, academia, and government. She is currently Gender Coordinator at the World Inequality Database, working on gender inequality. Previously, she was a Research Fellow in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., where she contributed to projects on inequality and climate policy. She has also held research positions at the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, the Buenos Aires City Government’s Economic Development Unit, and Argentina’s National Bank, as well as assisting faculty research at the Paris School of Economics.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of inequality, intergenerational mobility, and development economics. She has contributed chapters to flagship Inter-American Development Bank reports, including Climate Change and Fiscal Impacts (with Eduardo Cavallo and Luis Alejos Marroquín) and Citizens as Voters (with Bridget Hoffmann).

Her current research explores the dynamics of intergenerational economic mobility in Latin America. Her first paper uses self-reported economic status data from 18 countries between 2000 and 2020 to provide new cross-country evidence. The findings show low and uneven mobility across the region, with Central America displaying the highest persistence and rising persistence in Chile and Peru, particularly among younger cohorts. Her second project investigates the role of education in shaping intergenerational transmission of economic status, analyzing how educational pathways contribute to persistence and inequality across generations.