Lucrecia Santibanez

Biography

Lucrecia Santibanez is an economist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the RAND Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASP). Before joining RAND, she was partner and director of education studies at Fundación IDEA in Mexico City, a nonprofit, independent research firm focusing on public policy analysis. She was also assistant professor of public policy at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, where she taught introductory statistics and econometrics for M.A. students and a summer session on economics of education. She has published extensively on teacher incentives, teacher labor markets, education policy, and determinants of school quality. She has done research on school-based management, teacher incentives, ICTs in education, teacher evaluation, and early childhood development policies in Latin America. She is a frequent consultant for The World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. She has received research grants from the Kellogg Foundation, Fundacion Mexico Unido, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her international consulting and research experience includes projects in Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Qatar, Cambodia, Laos, and Mozambique. Santibanez received an M.A. in Latin American studies, M.A. in economics, and Ph.D. in education from Stanford University.