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Marta Rubio Codina
Research economist
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2006 PhD in Economics, University of Toulouse I, "Conditional Cash Transfers and Human and Physical Capital Accumulation in Rural Mexico - An Empirical Analysis."
2002 Diplome Europeen d'Economie Quantitative Approfondie (DEEQA), University of Toulouse I
2001 Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, University of Toulouse I
2000 BA in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Marta is a Research Economist in the Center for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo). She joined the Center in 2007 as an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow. She currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

Her research interests are in applied development economics, and in particular in education, early child development and household behaviour. She works in the evaluation of social and educational government programs in Latin American, including the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer program (Progresa /Oportunidades), the Compensatory Education Programs and other school-based managed initiatives in Mexico. More recently, she has been involved in the design and evaluation - in randomized control trial fashion - of a child stimulation and nutrition supplementation intervention amongst beneficiaries of Familias en Accion in Colombia.

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