Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

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1 Gladys Lopez-Acevedo HOME ADDRESS 9512 Linden Avenue l Bethesda, Phone: BUSINESS ADDRESS 1818 H Streets The World Bank gacevedo@worldbank.org NATIONALITY: Citizen of Mexico Fluent in English and French Gladys Lopez-Acevedo is Senior Economist in the Poverty and Gender Group at the World Bank in the Latin American Region. Ms. Lopez-Acevedo has coordinated large analytical programs and lending in Latin America including the Programmatic Poverty Program for Mexico ( ), the Technical Assistance Loan on Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation in Colombia ( She contributed to the evaluation program in Bolivia ( ). She led the IDF to improve the Monitoring and Evaluation System in the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico ( ). Gladys is leading two regional studies including Determinant of Regional Welfare Disparities in Latin America Countries with Emmanuel Skoufias (2009) and Impact Evaluation of SME programs in Latin America (2009). Ms. Lopez-Acevedo has authored and co-authored academic and policy papers including "Mexico: Poverty Assessment (with Michael Walton); Impact Evaluation of SME programs (with Hong Tan); Poverty in Latin America: Trends and Determinants (with Quentin Wodon) ; In-Firm Training for the Knowledge Economy (with Hong Tan); and Globalization and Social Safety Nets in Asia-Pacific Region (with Vicente Paqueo and Harry Patrinos). Ms. Lopez-Acevedo has served as board member in international economic journals such as El Trimestre Economico and Economia Mexicana. Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Lopez-Acevedo worked as Director of Social Programs and Senior Adviser to the Vice Minister of Finance in the Mexican Ministry of Finance ( ). In this capacity, she was part of the team leading the analysis and design of the flagship program Progresa. She also served as Deputy Director in the Economic Deregulation Unit in the Ministry of Economy ( ). She taught economics in several Mexican universities including the Instituto de Alta Direccion de Empresas (I.P.A.D.E), the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (C.I.D.E), and Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (I.T.A.M). EDUCATION University of Virginia, Ph.D in Economics (1995), Snavely Prize for Best Ph.D Dissertation. Ph.D. Dissertation : Quantal Response Equilibria for Auctions and Models of Price Competitions Advisors: Professors Leornard Mirman, Simon Anderson, and Charles Holt Fields: Microeconomic Theory and Econometrics University of Virginia, B.A in Economics (1993). Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), B.A in Economics (1991), Magna Cum Laude WORLD BANK EXPERIENCE Feb/1/2009- Senior Economist (PRMPR) Senior Economist (LCSPP) Economist (LCSPP)

2 Economist (LCSEP) Ms Lopez-Acevedo has led the analysis and policy dialogue on poverty, inequality, and labor markets in Mexico and in Colombia. She co-led the Mexico Poverty Program and the impact evaluation work in Colombia and Mexico, led and contributed to the preparation of Development Policy Loans, Investment Loans, and other operational work in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia. She has contributed to the preparation of Country Assistance Strategies (CAS) for Mexico and Colombia. She has led department-initiated analytical tasks on key issues in the area of social welfare, including the economic analysis of lending and non-lending projects, design and use of surveys (household, firm, community, institutional, and qualitative) as part of the economic evaluation, appraisal and supervision process of projects. As economist in LCSEP, she contributed to the Mexico and Colombia Short Term Risk Group and the CMU s monthly Macro Monitoring. She has been the point person in the collaboration with local country teams, government and counterparts in the design of projects; public expenditures reviews, and analysis in the social sectors in Mexico and Colombia. Task-manager of the World Bank projects listed below: World Bank, 2009, Poverty in LAC Determinants of Regional Welfare Disparities in Latin American Countries World Bank, 2009, Impact Evaluation of SME programs in Latin America World Bank, 2008 and 2009, Fee for Services Program for the Ministry of Social Development and for the National Evaluation Council World Bank, , Technical Assistance on Poverty and Labor Markets to Colombia World Bank, 2007, Poverty and Labor Markets in Colombia World Bank, 2006, Programmatic Poverty Program World Bank, 2005, Poverty TA to Colombia World Bank, 2005, M&E loan Colombia World Bank, 2005, Co-task Manager Ministry of Social Protection Social DPL World Bank, 2004, IDF Ministry of Social Protection. World Bank, , Programmatic Poverty Work in Mexico. World Bank, 2000, An Alternative Technical Education System in Mexico: A Cost- Effectiveness Study of CONALEP. World Bank, 2001, Technology Diffusion, Job Creation and Wage Growth World Bank 2000, Teachers Incentives in Mexico. World Bank, 2000, Dynamics of Rural Population Dispersion. World Bank, 1999, Inequality from Financial Assets. World Bank, 1998, Earnings Distribution after Mexico s Economic and Educational Reforms World Bank, 1998, Targeting and Focalization of Social Programs. World Bank, 1998, Education Decentralization and Expenditures Review: jointly with Vicente Paqueo (LACHD). Significant contribution to the projects listed below: Team member, World Bank, 2004, Skill-Biased Technical Change and Labor Markets: Cross-Country Studies Using Panel Data. Principal, World Bank, 2002, Economic Analysis of the Colombian Conditional Cash Transfer Project. Principal, Economic Analysis of the World Bank, 2000, Training Mechanisms Reform. Co-authored World Bank, 2000 and 2006, Strategic Policy Notes on Mexico and on Colombia, on Macroeconomic Management; Fiscal Reform; Education and the Labor Markets in Mexico.

3 Team member, World Bank, 2000, Vulnerability and Household Responses to Economic Shocks Team member, World Bank, 2000, Construction of leading macroeconomic indicators. Principal, Analysis of child labor and school attendance for World Bank, 1999, Social Protection Assessment for Ecuador. Principal, Economic Analysis of the World Bank, 1999, Project for Essential Social Services. Authored background papers, Trends and Determinants of Poverty, Education and Compensatory Program for the World Bank, 1998, Poverty Economic Memorandum. Authored background papers on Earnings Inequality and Education for the World Bank, 1998, Enhancing Factor Productivity Growth Country Economic Memorandum. Authored background paper on the Evaluation of the Compensatory Education Programs for the World Bank, 1998, Basic Education Study. Co-authored background paper on the Agricultural Incentive Framework after NAFTA for the World Bank, 1999, Economic Adjustment and Institutional Reform: Mexico s Ejido Sector Responds, (Green Cover) Report No Led and co-authored World Bank report, Financial Restructuring of Distressed Enterprises (FY1998, green cover). OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 12/ /1998 Senior Adviser of the UnderMinister of Finance, Mexico Ministry of Finance Research University (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) Lecturer, Economics Department, CIDE on Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, and Public Finance Instituto Tecnologico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Professor, Economics Department, ITAM. Taught at the B.A and at Master level in Game Theory, Industrial Organization, and Intermediate Microeconomics. Conducted research on the Design of Auctions and Theory of Incentives University of Virginia Lecturer, Economics Department, UVA in Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics. 05/ /1991 Deputy Director, Economic Deregulation Unit, Mexico Ministry of Industry and Trade PUBLICATIONS (a) Books and World Bank Reports: Springer, 2009, Inequality in Education: Compartive and International Perspectives. World Bank, 2009, Determinants of Regional Welfare Differences in Latin American Countries. World Bank, 2009, Poverty and Nutrition: Impact Evaluation of Social Policies in Mexico. World Bank, 2009, Expansion and Strengthening of Information, Monitoring, and Evaluation in SEDESOL, MX. World Bank, 2009, Improving Productivity of the Urban Poor, MX.

4 World Bank, 2009 Colombia: Income and Employment Generation for the Poor. Report No CO. World Bank, 2008, Impact Evaluation of SME programs in Mexico. World Bank, 2008, Poverty and Labor Markets in Colombia. Reports No CO. World Bank, 2008, Poverty and Labor Markets in Colombia. Reports No CO. World Bank, 2005, Mexico:Income Generation and Social Protection. Report No ME. World Bank, 2004, Mexico: Poverty and Government Strategy. Report No ME. World Bank, 2001, Mexico-Technology, Wages and Employment. Report No ME. World Bank, 2001, Technology Diffusion, Job Creation and Wage Growth, (Gray Cover) Report No. Report No ME World Bank, 2001, Mexico: A Comprehensive Development Strategy. Co-authored three chapters of the volume (chapters 21, 22 and 25). World Bank and IADB, 2000, Teacher s Incentives in Latin America (with Guillerme Shedlac). World Bank, 2000, Ecuador: Social Assessment, School Attendance and Child Labor in Ecuador, Report No EC. World Bank, 1999, Earnings Inequality After Mexico s Economic and Educational Reforms, Report No ME. World Bank, 1999, Mexico Poverty Assessment, Poverty Profiles in Mexico, Report No ME. World Bank, 1999, Mexico Poverty Assessment, Determinants of Primary School Completion and Secondary School Enrollment, Report No ME. World Bank, 1999; Mexico Poverty Assessment, Supply Side Improvement and the Learning Achievement of the Poorest Children in Indigenous Rural Schools: The Case of PARE, Report No ME. Targeting and Evaluation of the Education Compensatory Programs, Report No ME. Benefit-incidence Analysis of the Government Educational Transfers, Report No ME. Marginal Willingness to Pay for Educational Services, Report No ME. Efficiency and Equity in the allocation of the Federal Education Transfers, Report No ME. World Bank, 1998, Country Economic Memorandum, Earnings Inequality and Education in Mexico, Report No ME World Bank, 1998, Mexico: Strengthening Enterprise Finance, Recent trends in Enterprise Financing, Report No ME. (b) Papers in refereed journals A Decade of the Evolution of Earnings Inequality and Rates of Return to Education in Mexico ; Handbook of Education, Elsevier, Evolution of Earnings Inequality and Rates of Return to Education in Mexico ; Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Volume XVI, No 4. October 2003, pp

5 Learning Outcomes and School Cost-Effectiveness in Mexico: The PARE Program, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Volume XVI, No. 1 January 2002, pp Educational Inequality in Mexico : In International Handbook on the Inequality of Education, Jacobs and Holsinger editors,ucla forthcoming January Poverty in Latin America: Trends ( ) and Determinants, in Cuadernos de Economia, Latin America Journal of Economics 38, No. 114: (August, 2001). A Case Study of Mexico Conditional Cash Transfer in Globalization and Social Safety Nets in Asia-Pacific Region, Park and Lee Editors, Policy Paper A Reassessment of Technical Education in México, Journal of Career and Technical Education, Volume 19, Number 2 Spring 2003, pp Equilibrium Behavior in Posted Offer Markets, La Revista de Estudios Economicos del Colegio de México 12, No.2: (December, 1997). Quantal Response Equilibria for Posted-offer Markets, M. Isaac (ed.), Research in Experimental Economics, Greenwich,Connecticut: JAI Press,1996. Trends in Enterprise Financing in México, El Trimestre Economico (Vol. LXVI March, 1999, pp ). Diseño de Nuevas Instituciones de Subastas, El Trimestre Económico ( LXVII March,2000, pp ). Determinant of secondary school enrollment in Mexico, Trimestre Económico (Vol LXXI March, 2004, pp ). Professional Development and Techers Incentives in Mexico, Trimestre Económico (Vol XIX September 2002, pp Equilibrium Behavior in an all Pay-auction Model with Complete Information, Estudios Económicos El Colegio de México, Volumen 19, june 2004, pp Mexico: Evolution of Earnings Inequality and Rates of Returns to Education ( ). Estudios Económicos, Vol. 19, no. 2, December 2004 Equilibrio Secuencial y sus Refinamientos,Gaceta de Economia, ITAM (1996), pp Análisis Económico y Fiscal: Programa de Desarrollo Educativo hacia el 2015, Perfiles Educativos, UNAM (1998). Technology Adoption and Skills Demand: Panel Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing, fothcoming in the Journal of Manpower. Determinants of Child Labor in Ecuador, forthcoming in the CEPAL-BID-FCE Child Labor in Latin America. (c) Papers and background papers Mexico: Determinants of Wages and Productivity, World Bank Policy Research Working

6 Paper, 2008, 2904 Evaluation of SME programs, World Bank Policy Research, 2008, 2903 Mexico: In-Firm Training for the Knowledge Economy, (co-authored with Hong Tan), August 2002, Background Paper for the 2002 LAC Flagship Report, Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reconsidering Education, Training and Technology Policies. Absorptive Capacity and Technological Adoption: Panel Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Economists Forum Technological Adoption and Firm Performance in Mexico, forthcoming as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, Technology Adoption and Skills Demand: Panel Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing, forthcoming as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2001.No-2701 An Alternative Technical Education System: A Reassessment of CONALEP, forthcoming as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2001 and in the Economics of Education Review. Evolution of Earnings Inequality and Rates of Return to Education in Mexico ; Journal of Education and Planning (June, 2001) and World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No (October, 2001). Poverty in Latin America: Trends ( ) and Determinants (with Quentin Wodon), in Cuadernos de Economia, Latin America Journal of Economics 38, No. 114: (August, 2001). Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution Of Market Price Support in Agriculture: Mexico , forthcoming in la Revista de Estudios Economicos del Colegio de Mexico. The Evolution and Structure of the Rates of Returns to Education in Mexico ( ): An application of Quantile Regression, Forthcoming in la Revista de Estudios Economicos del Colegio de Mexico. Professional Development and Incentives for Teacher Performance in Schools in Mexico, The World Bank, LCSHD Paper Series, No. 64 (2001) and forthcoming in the Journal of Education and Planning. Teachers Salaries and Professional Profile in Mexico, The World Bank, LCSHD Paper Series, No. 63 (2001) and forthcoming in the Journal of Education and Planning. Financial Crisis and Inequality in Mexico: , with Angel Salinas, Policy Research Working Paper, No.2406 ( 2000). Educational Public Expenditure in Mexico: Some Distributional Issues, with Angel Salinas, Policy Research Working Paper, No (2000). Marginal Willingness to Pay for Education and the Determinants of Enrollment in Mexico, with Angel Salinas, Policy Research Working Paper, No (2000).

7 Educational Policy for Intermediate and Tertiary Level of Education in Mexico, with Angel Salinas, Policy Research Working Paper, No (2000). Learning Achievement and School Cost-Effectiveness: the PARE Program, Policy Research Working Paper, No (1999) and in the Journal of Education and Planning (June, 2001). Poverty in Mexico: , with Quentin T. Wodon, World Bank Discussion Paper (1999). Determinants of Primary School Completion and Secondary School Enrollment in Mexico, with Quentin T. Wodon, World Bank Discussion Paper (1999). Income Distribution and Education in LAC, with Lauro Ramos, I.P.E.A Discussion Paper (1998). Análisis Economico y Fiscal: Programa de Desarrollo Educativo, Perfiles Educativos, UNAM (1998). Trends in Enterprise Financing in México, El Trimestre Economico (March, 1999). Diseño de Nuevas Instituciones de Subastas, El Trimestre Económico ( March,1999). Equilibrium Behavior in Posted Offer Markets, La Revista de Estudios Economicos del Colegio de México 12, No.2: (December, 1997). Dispersión Poblacional y Mínimos de Bienestar; Becas en el Programa PROGRESA y Política Social en México, Notes, S.H.C.P, Subastas con Valuación Común y la Maldición del Ganador, ITAM Economics Department, Discussion Paper ( 1997). Equilibrium Behavior in an all Pay-auction Model, Economics Research Center, ITAM, Discussion Paper, No (1997). Equilibrio Secuencial y sus Refinamientos, Gaceta de Economia, ITAM (1996). Quantal Response Equilibria for Posted-offer Markets, M. Isaac, ed., Research in Experimental Economics, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press,1996. Equilibrium Behavior in an All Pay-Auction Model, University of Virginia, Department of Economics, Working Paper (1996). Quantal Response Equilibria for Models of Price Competition, Dissertation, University of Virginia, Department of Economics, Working Paper (1995).