Appointments:

Lecturer in Economics, Queen's Business School

Research Associate, Centre for Economic History

Research Associate, Centre for Economics, Policy and History

University administration:

Adviser of Studies (Year 1, BSc Economics programmes)

External links:

Personal website

Aldo Elizalde is an applied economist with a particular focus on economic history and development. Specifically, his expertise is understanding why and how societies differ in their income levels, using cutting-edge quantitative methods and historical approaches.

Aldo is an expert on the relationship between institutions and long-run development. His most recent publications examine how Indigenous mobilisation shaped nation-building efforts in post revolutionary Mexico. More recently, Aldo began to explore how Indigenous knowledge was transmitted during colonisation and how this shaped long-term economic outcomes. He is also studying how kinship norms—one of humanity’s oldest institutional systems—interacted with the rise of states over the course of five millennia.

Aldo has published in the top journal in the field of development economics (Journal of Development Economics), as well as in KYKLOS and Economics Letters.

Economic history, development economics, political economy, and economic geography

Aldo holds an MSc in Economic Development and PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, with a total value of £313,536. In June 2020, he was awarded the Sir Alec Cairncross Prize for best paper submitted by a young economist.

Before joining Queen's in 2021, Aldo worked as a Lecturer in Economics, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, and Research Associate at the University of Glasgow.  

Current teaching duties:

• Statistical methods (ECO1003)
• Managerial Economics (ECO2009)