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Santiago A. Saldívar

Predoctoral Research Fellow
Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford

Applied Microeconomics Health Economics Education Economics

ssaldivar [at] eit [dot] org


About

Hello! I am a Predoctoral Research Fellow in Economics at the Ellison Institute of Technology, where my research focuses on the effects of AI on labor markets and health care, the impact of surgical robotics on patient outcomes and surgeon productivity, and heterogeneity in health and aging across demographic groups in the United Kingdom.

I graduated from Harvard College in 2024 with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics and Economics, where I completed an honors thesis studying social capital and high school graduation rates. Prior to joining EIT, I worked as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a predoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School.

I was selected for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in 2026, and I plan to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics in the future.

Experience

2025 – present

Ellison Institute of Technology

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Oxford, UK

Economics of AI and Health

2024 – 2025

Massachusetts General Hospital

Predoctoral Researcher

Boston, MA · in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and NBER

Health Economics

2024 – 2025

Harvard Business School

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Boston, MA

Labor Economics and International Economics

2024

Harvard College

A.B. Applied Mathematics (w/ Economics)

Cambridge, MA

Economics of Education

Research

Community Characteristics Associated With Hospital Openings and Closures in the United States, 2010–2023

With Nancy D. Beaulieu, Kori S. Zachrison, David M. Cutler, Mary Beth Landrum, Ateev Mehrotra, Lee H. Schwamm, Rishi K. Wadhera

Manuscript in progress
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CV

Curriculum Vitae

PDF · last updated May 2026

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