Daniel Araya-Ríos
Mr Daniel Araya-Ríos is a PhD candidate in Health Economics at Trépel Lab, Trinity College Dublin. His research examines how individuals make health-related choices to enhance or maintain their brain and physical health throughout their life course. He employs econometric methods for causal inference to study the impact of public policies on brain health and uses choice modelling techniques to model individual preferences for health.
Before his PhD, Daniel Araya-Ríos worked at the University Adolfo Ibáñez Business School as a researcher in the Economics of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and as a lecturer in Microeconomics. He also served as an analyst at the Department of Public Spending Review at the Chilean Ministry of Finance, focusing on the effectiveness of public policies through econometric analysis.
Araya-Ríos holds a Bachelor's and Master's in Economics from the University Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile. His other interests include video games, yoga, and photography.
Publications:
Paraje, G., & Araya, D. (2018). Relationship between smoking and health and education spending in Chile. Tobacco Control, 27(5), 560-567. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Paraje, G., Araya, D., & Drope, J. (2019). The association between flavor capsule cigarette use and sociodemographic variables: evidence from Chile. PLoS ONE, 14(10), Article e0224217. Public Library of Science.
Araya, D., & Paraje, G. (2018). The impact of prices on alcoholic beverage consumption in Chile. PLoS ONE, 13(10), Article e0205932. Public Library of Science.
Paraje, G., Araya, D., & Drope, J. (2020). Illicit cigarette trade in Metropolitan Santiago de Chile. Tobacco Control, 29(1), 68-73. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Paraje, G., Araya, D., De Paz, A., & Nargis, N. (2021). Price and expenditure elasticity of cigarette demand in El Salvador: a household-level analysis and simulation of a tax increase. Tobacco Control, 30(4), 422-427. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Paraje, G., Araya, D., & Monteiro, M. (2024). Off-premises demand elasticities for pure alcohol in five Latin American countries: the case of Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Uruguay. International Journal of Drug Policy, 124, Article 104316. Elsevier.