Orazio is an International Research Fellow, working with colleagues at IFS on human capital in developing countries.
Orazio is a Professor at Yale, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2004 Fellow of the British Academy. He was President of the European Economic Association in 2014, and is a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society.
After obtaining his PhD at the London School of Economics, Orazio taught at Stanford University and the University of Bologna. He was also a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He has been Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of the European Economic Association and Quantitative Economics.
His current research interests focus principally on development economics, household consumption and saving behaviour, risk sharing and inequality.
Education
PhD Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988
MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1984
Laurea (Summa Cum Laude) Statistical and Economic Sciences, Universita’ di Bologna, 1982
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of trainees.
This paper studies the impact of a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia on the total consumption of very poor households and on its components.
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.
This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.
In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.
This paper finds that the relationship between house prices and consumption is stronger for younger than older households, which appears to contradict the wealth channel.
In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.
