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Gabriel Leon-Ablan

Professor of Political Economy



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Professor of Political Economy


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Department of Political Economy

King's College London

Email: gabriel.leon_ablan@kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: gabrieljleon
Bluesky: gabrielleon.bsky.social



Gabriel Leon-Ablan

Professor of Political Economy


Department of Political Economy

King's College London

Email: gabriel.leon_ablan@kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: gabrieljleon
Bluesky: gabrielleon.bsky.social



My teaching spans political economy, quantitative methods, historical political economy and public policy. I teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels, ranging from introductory economics to advanced causal inference and research-led courses on institutions and economic development.

Recent teaching

Empirical Political Economy - Upper-level undergraduate
An applied causal-inference course examining how empirical methods can be used to answer questions in political economy. Topics include randomized experiments, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity designs.
Advanced Topics in Economic History - Upper-level undergraduate
A research-led course on institutions, economic development, and historical political economy. The course focuses particularly on recent empirical research using causal-inference methods to study historical questions.
Econometrics Crash CourseMaster's
An intensive review of undergraduate econometrics for incoming graduate students, covering the core tools needed for graduate-level empirical research.
Economic HistoryMaster's elective
A research-led course on institutions, long-run economic development, and historical political economy, with particular attention to contemporary empirical approaches.

Previous teaching

Comparative Public Policy — Master's
Public Economics — Upper-level undergraduate
Advanced Issues in International Politics — Upper-level undergraduate
Mathematics for Economics — Undergraduate
Microeconomics — Undergraduate 

Teaching interests

Political economy; historical political economy; causal inference and applied econometrics; institutions and development; comparative public policy; economic history.

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