Ana Santiago

Ana Santiago is a Mexican economist specialized in impact evaluation of Social programs. Graduated from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM (Economics), Warwick Business School (Economics and Finance) and University College London, UCL (Economics).
Ms. Santiago heads the Teacher Quality Team, and the Evaluation Concentration Area at the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (2008-present). Prior to this, she worked for the Mexican Government at the Ministry of Finance SHCP, and the Office of Evaluation and Social Programs at the Ministry of Social Development SEDESOL, later becoming CONEVAL, an independent evaluation office.
Ana is co-founder (with Felipe Barrera and Maria Laura Alzua) of the Impact Evaluation Network of Latin America (IEN) within the LACEA (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association) framework, and an Honorary Member of LACEA. IEN is an initiative that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding impact evaluation of different policies, primarily with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Current work with countries
1) Design and Experimental impact evaluation of a monetary Incentives Pilot to improve education attainment in Mexico: Aligning Learning Incentives ALI (with Miguel Szekely, Marcelo Cabrol, Jere Berhman, Petra Todd, Ken Wolpin, and Susan Parker) ALI Preliminary Results
2) Team Leader in the design and implementation of the impact evaluation of , and Ensena por Argentina, initiatives based on the Teach for America model applied to Latin American countries, and soon expanding to Colombia and Brazil (with Mariana Alfonso and Marina Bassi). This evaluation measures the impact of the program over cognitive and non-cognitive skills, expectations and other learning variables. It is the first evaluation of this model to include non-cognitive skills.
3) Design and implementation of the Experimental impact evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child pilot in Peru (with Eugenio Severin, Jennelle Thompson, Pablo Ibarraran, Julian Cristia, and Santiago Cueto)
4) Contribution to the design of the recently approved Teacher Career Plan of Chile (Carrera Profesional Docente Chile) Carrera Docente and Incentives
Related Work Links
Education Initiative IADB
Blog
Related Publications and Work in Progress
(with Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir)
(with Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, and Andrew Shepherd)
with Marcelo Cabrol and Mariana Alfonso
with Mariana Alfonso and Marina Bassi
(Education Model - Collaborator)

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