Noel B. Del Castillo

Mental health consequences of extreme weather events

Email: noel.delcastillo@vuw.ac.nz

Supervisors: Professor Ilan Noy and Dr Harold Cuffe III

Profile

Noel is a PhD student in Economics and a recipient of the Economics of Disasters Scholarship at Victoria University of Wellington. His research focuses on the economics of extreme weather events. He was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman and at Miriam College, teaching courses in international trade, money and banking, fiscal policy, international aid, and development economics. He has previously consulted for the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank on macroeconomic monitoring, poverty, and public finance.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Economics (cum laude), University of the Philippines Diliman

Master of Arts in Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research Interests

Economics of Disasters, Household Economics, Altruism, Public Economics, and Development Economics

Publications

Book chapter

Del Castillo, N.B. 2024. “The Global Economy”. Chapter 2 in The Contemporary World. F.A.C. Cruz et al., editors. Quezon City, Philippines: C&E Publishing, Inc.

Policy briefs

Molato-Gayares, R. and N. Del Castillo. 2021. “Beyond COVID-19: Learning and earning losses from school closures”. Pacific Economic Monitor. July. Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Carandang, N. and N. Del Castillo. 2020. “Social protection and COVID-19 in the Pacific: economic inoculation to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic”. Pacific Economic Monitor. December. Manila: ADB.

Del Castillo, N. and P. Cruz. 2018. “Improving access to utilities in the Pacific”. Pacific Economic Monitor. July. Manila: ADB.