Carolina V. Vera is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Arizona, specializing in labor economics and economic history, with secondary interests in child development and environmental economics.

Before pursuing her Ph.D., she received an M.A. in Economics from Georgetown University/Universidad Alberto Hurtado (ILADES) and a B.S. in Economics from Universidad Católica Boliviana. Her research examines how environmental shocks, public investments, and early-life policies shape inequality, mobility, and human-capital formation.

Her job market paper studies the distributional effects of the 1937 Ohio River Flood using newly constructed fine-scale flood-damage data linked to full-count Census records. Her broader research agenda also includes projects on Head Start, early childhood policy in Chile, and the long-run effects of Dust Bowl migration.