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Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy
Emma Aguila an economist at the RAND Corporation, director of the RAND Center for Latin American Social Policy, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is leading a randomized control trial analyzing the impact of a noncontributory pension program in the State of Yucatan, Mexico.…
Associate Economist
Leandro Carvalho in an associate economist whose research interests include topics in development, labor, and health economics. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Carvalho has studied the time preferences of poor families; gender discrimination in India; the importance of…
Associate Director, RAND Center for Latin American Social Policy
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…
Associate Economist
Silvia Helena Barcellos is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics topics in labor and development economics. Her labor economics research includes works on the economic causes and…
Associate Economist
Fabian Duarte is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His background is in industrial organization, health economics, social security, and education. Duarte is currently working on several papers and projects, including a project for…
Associate Economist
Francisco Perez-Arce is an associate economist at RAND with interests in international development, education, labor markets, and public finance. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, he was a consultant at the Division of Coordination with Entities in…
Associate Economist
Juan Esteban Saavedra joined RAND as an associate economist in the Santa Monica office. Previously he was an assistant professor of public policy at Los Andes University's Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government in Bogotá, Colombia. His research focuses on the economics of education…
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