Claudio A. Mora-García Contact Information

Department of Business Administration, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Carrera 7 # 40-62, Piso 4 - 8, Bogotá DC, Colombia. Phone: (+57-1) 320 8320 Ext.: 3140 E-mail: [email protected], http://sites.google.com/site/claudioalbertomora

Academic positions

Department of Business Administration, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Assistant Professor, 2015Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Summer 2016

Fields

Health economics, development economics

Education

Ph.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Economics, June 2015 Essays on Development Economics Advisors: Jeanne Lafortune, Tomás Rau, Francisco Gallego M.Sc., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Economics, May 2014 Licentiate, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Economics, June 2010 B.A., Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Economics, June 2009

Awards and Grants

Academic Excellence Scholarship, MECESUP 2010-2012 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Fellowship 2012-2014 University of Costa Rica Honors Scholarship 2004

Working papers

“Can Benefits from Malaria Eradication be Increased? Evidence from Costa Rica”, accepted at the Economic Development and Cultural Change

Work in progress

“Peer Effects in the Adoption of a New Social Program” (joint with Tomás Rau) “Primary Health Care and Mortality: Health Reform in Costa Rica” “Endogenous Expression of Preferences: Economic Shocks and Political Participation” (joint with Rossella Greco) “Explaining Turnout by Distance to Pooling Location”

Presentations

LACEA-LAMES Conference, Medellín, Colombia 2016 Encuentro Anual SECHI, Reñaca, Chile 2016 LACEA Latin American Economic Society Annual Conference, Santa Cruz, Bolivia 2015 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia 2015 Banco de México, México DF, México 2015 1 of 2

Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica 2015 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santigo, Chile 2014 Encuentro Anual SECHI, Reñaca, Chile 2014 Conference in Applied Microeconomics, PUC, Santiago, Chile 2013

Teaching

Microeconomics, PUJ, undergraduate, 2015-2016 Microeconomics, PUJ, graduate, 2015

Professional activities

Referee for Latin American Journal of Economics (LAJE), Revista CEPAL

Other teaching and research

Teaching Assistant: Masters Level: Microeconomic Theory I, Econometric Theory II, Development Economics (2011-2013) Undergraduate: Microeconomics I, Health Economics, Economics and Social Policy Evaluation (2014), Econometrics 1 (2008), Principles of Economics (2007-2008) Research Assistant: Professor Rodrigo Harrison, Economics Department, PUC (2012)

Other experience

Economic Advisor of the Minister. Ministry of Economics and Ministry of Interinstitutional Coordination, Presidential House. San José, Costa Rica (2009) Assistant Economist. Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Office of the Chief Economist (OEJ). Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2008)

Citizenship

Costa Rican, working visa (Colombia), tourist visa (USA)

Languages

Spanish (native), English (very fluent), Italian (basic) Last updated: February 24, 2017

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