Carolina (full name: Carolina Méndez Vargas) is an Education Specialist
in the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank,
based in the Peru office. She earned her BA in Economics and MA in
Public Policy at Universidad de Chile, and her PhD in Public Policy
at the University of Chicago. Before the IDB she worked at the
Chilean Ministry of Education. Her area of specialization is the
evaluation of public policies and issues related to education
financing and management — particularly teacher hiring and
assignment in Latin America. She and Christopher have collaborated on
three IDB-led projects: the
smart matching platforms paper for teacher assignment in Ecuador,
the welfare effects of household preferences in school assignment
systems, and the information experiment on school attributes.
