Sandra Rozo is a Senior Economist in the People Research Program of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. She received a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and M.A. (Cum Laude) in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from UCLA. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California. Sandra is a faculty affiliate at CEGA, Univ. of California Berkeley, and a research fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics, CESR, Univ. Southern California, Schaeffer Center, Univ. Southern California, and the Households in Conflict Network. She is a founding member of Humans LACEA Network and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics. She received the 2024 Juan Luis Londoño Award, given biennially to a Colombian under 40 whose research and policy work have made a substantial contribution to welfare in Colombia. She also contributed to the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.
Sandra's research informs policy around:
- How forced displacement affects development and how we can support displaced populations and their hosting communities effectively.
- How technology can improve the well-being of vulnerable communities.
- Determinants of fertility decline and implications for development.
- How crime and non-state armed actors affect development, and what policies can effectively curb their effects.
She works with randomized trials, longitudinal panels, and quasi-experimental methods, with work on Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Jordan, Peru, Venezuela, and Uganda. She co-founded the VenRePs panels of Venezuelan forced migrants in Colombia for adults and children and the Syrian Refugee Life Study (SRLS) in Jordan.
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