Constanza Avalos Valdebenito

Constanza Avalos is a PhD student in Social Statistics at the Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester (UoM). She is a Sociologist and holds an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from the UoM. She has developed her career mostly in Chile, leading research projects in public and private institutions, both in the design of surveys and in the analysis of quantitative information supported by statistical software. Constanza worked as head of the Department of Agricultural Studies at the Chilean National Institute of Statistics. She has done research into macroeconomic growth, food security, and food industry. These studies have been published in national and international institutions contributing to methodological improvements of studies in the food area. Her master and doctoral research has been funded by National Agency for Research and Development – Becas Chile. Her PhD research focus on modeling the effect of food labels and ecolabels on consumers' choices in the framework of causal inference. Constanza's doctoral resesearch is supervised by Nicholas Shryane.