Natalia Candelo Londono is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at CUNY Queens College.

Her research seeks to understand how individuals at low-income levels make economic decisions. She is a lab-in-the-field experimental economist who investigates economic decision-making by low-income populations. In all but one of her papers, she uses a methodology of lab-in-the-field. This method brings the control of laboratory experiments into the contextual richness of the field.

She has received 12 grants to support this work. She has published papers in peer-reviewed journals, plus book chapters. Her first published papers have focused primarily on poverty. One of her book chapters describes the lab-in-the-field methodology. As her research has matured, she has added new dimensions to the study of low-income individuals: exposure to violence, CSR, and wage negotiations.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in February 2012 and became a Research Fellow since December 2023.