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Viviana Rodriguez is an assistant professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Economics at the Carlos Alvarez College of Business. She has a PhD in economics and education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a MA and BA in economics from Universidad de Los Andes. Her research focuses on economics of education, labor economics and cost-effectiveness analysis. She is also a research affiliate to University of Pennsylvania's Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education and the Economic Evaluation Section co-editor for the American Journal of Evaluation.
Research Interests
- Economics of Education
- Labor Economics
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Degrees
- PhD Columbia University
- MA Universidad de Los Andes
- BA Universidad de Los Andes
Publications
- "Student Effort Response to Shifts in University Admission Policies," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 93, 102367.
- "An Analysis of the Costs to Provide High-Quality and Individualized Emergent Literacy Support in Pre-K Classrooms," with Muroga, A., Escueta, M., & Bowden, A. B., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2022, pp. 206-216.
- "Unequal Worker Exposure to Establishment Deaths," in Labour Economics, Vol. 73, 2021, 102073.