Besides our permanent work team, QFD counts with the constant collaboration and project development by our affiliated researchers (specialized in social and economic development).
Horacio Larreguy Arbesu Ph.D.
Horacio Larreguy received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2013 and is currently an Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. This academic year he is also on leave as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and Toulouse School of Economics. On August 2021, he will start as an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at ITAM in Mexico City. He is interested in political economy and development, and his work is mostly in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has particularly worked on the importance of information for political accountability, vote buying, and when education fosters political participation. More recently, motivated by the COVID-19 infodemic, he has started working on various projects on misinformation in Bolivia, South Africa, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. Horacio’s methodological focus is on causal identification using both observational and experimental data, and whenever possible, he uses social network analysis. He has conducted large-scale experiments in Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, Liberia, Mexico, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Horacio has published at the AEJ: Applied Economics, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of Politics, Journal of the European Economic Association, PLoS ONE, Review of Economics and Statistics, Science Advances, among other journals. Horacio has served as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is currently an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal.
Professor and researcher at the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Ph. D. in Economics, Princeton University; M.Sc. in Economics and Philosophy, London School of Economics; B.A. in Economics, Stanford University.
María Elena Ortega Hesles has a B.A. in Economics, ITAM and an M.Sc and Ph.D. in Education Policy, Harvard University. She is currently the Director of the Social Innovation Lab at Via Education. She is also consultant for diverse international organizations, local governments, foundations and non-profit organizations. She is a member of the Network of United Women for Education (MUxED). Her main expertise is the design, monitoring, evaluation and learning of educational and labor programs. Her research has been distinguished with various awards in Mexico.
