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Marta Rubio Codina
Senior 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 Senior Research Economist in the Centre for Evaluation of Development Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (EDePo@IFS). She joined the Centre in 2007 as an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow. From 2009-2011, she held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

Her research interests are in human capital investment decisions in developing countries, and in particular in early childhood development, education, and intra-household resource allocation. Marta is very interested in understanding the determinants of low early childhood development (ECD), its association with poverty, and in identifying programs that promote ECD.

Her current research includes the design, implementation and evaluation of child psycho-social stimulation and nutritional supplementation programs targeted to very young children and their mothers in Colombia and India. She is also working on the identification of tools that allow measuring ECD outcomes amongst children younger than 42 months in a cost-efficient manner, and are hence suitable for large scale evaluations.

Marta has also extensive experience in the evaluation of social and educational government programs in Latin American, including the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer program (Progresa /Oportunidades).

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Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina, April 2008,  Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico External publications , Harvard Graduate School of Education
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina, December 2007,  Impact evaluation for school based management reforms External publications , World Bank Center
Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Marta Rubio Codina, August 2006,  Investing cash transfers to raise long term living standards External publications , World Bank
Paul Gertler, Harry Patrinos and Marta Rubio Codina, June 2006,  Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico External publications , World Bank
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