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Job Title:Research Associate Contact Details: maria.santos@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
Biography
Maria Emma is a Research Officer at OPHI and a post-doctoral fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Argentina. Her research interests include the measurement and analysis of chronic and multidimensional poverty, the quality of education, its determinants, and its role for poverty persistence. She is particularly interested in Latin American countries.
Areas of Expertise
- Chronic and multidimensional poverty
- Inequality measurement
- Quality of Education
Education
2008 Doctor in Economics, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Thesis: Poverty and Education in Argentina: Theoretical-Empirical Analysis
2005 M.A. in Economic Development, Vanderbilt University, USA
2004 Teaching Degree in Economics for Secondary School, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
2002 Licenciate in Economics, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Selected Publications
“Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A new index for developing countries,” with Sabina Alkire. OPHI Working Paper 38, UNDP HDRO Background Paper 2010/11
“Human Capital and the Quality of Education in a Poverty Trap Model.” OPHI Working Paper 30.
“Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries,” with Diego Battiston Guillermo Cruces, Luis Felipe Lopez Calva and Maria Ana Lugo. OPHI Working Paper 17.
“Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?,” with Sabina Alkire, Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky. OPHI Research in Progress 22.
“Agencia de los padres y logros de los hijos: Explorando el caso de America Latina,” with Emma Samman and Gaston Yalonetzky. OPHI Research in Progress 12.
“Agency and Empowerment: A review of concepts, indicators and empirical evidence,” with Emma Samman. OPHI Research in Progress 10.
“Gross National Happiness and Poverty in Bhutan: Applying the GNH Index Methodology to explore Poverty,” with Sabina Alkire and Karma Ura. OPHI Research in Progress 4.
“Quality of Education in Argentina: Determinants and Distribution using PISA 2000 test scores”, Wellbeing and Social Policy3:1, p. 93-119, 1st semester, 1997.
“Factors influencing income inequality across urban Argentina (1998-2003)”, in S. Klasen and F. Nowak-Lehmann (Eds.) (2007), Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Migration in Latin America, Chap. 5: p. 155-1980. Also as Discussion Paper Series, Paper No. 126, http://www2.vwl.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/ibero/papers/DB126.pdf.
“Multidimensional Poverty in Bhutan: Estimates and Policy Implications”, with Karma Ura. OPHI Working Paper No 14.
