About
Oswaldo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru) and a Research Associate at the Universidad del Pacífico Research Centre. He holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford. He currently leads REDES (Red de Estudios para el Desarrollo), an initiative to disseminate Peruvian development research, is an Associate Editor of Oxford Development Studies, and an op-ed columnist at El Comercio. His research is in empirical development microeconomics — retirement savings, school dropout, property titling, and conditional cash transfers — with research collaborations across the IDB, World Bank, ILO, and ODI. He and Christopher are coauthors on the Peru DFM study of dynamic complementarities of information and on the COVID-era information-via-television study.
Background
- Empirical Development Microeconomics
- Education Policy
- Retirement Savings and Social Security
- Conditional Cash Transfers
Education
- PhD, Economics · University of Oxford
Career
- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru) (present)
- Research Associate, Universidad del Pacífico Research Centre (present)
- Director, Red de Estudios para el Desarrollo (REDES) (present)
Joint work with Christopher
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Lights, Camera, School: Information Provision through Television during COVID-19 Times
Journal of Development Economics (March 2025) · 2025
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Dynamic Complementarities of Information Interventions and Human Capital in Peru
2015