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Our article​ The Complexity of Multidimensional Learning in Agriculture (with Karen Macours) has been conditionally accepted at Econometrica
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We have received a USD 1.9 million grant from the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) for a Colombia Country Study assessing the reach of CGIAR technologies. I serve as the lead-PI on this project.
January 2025: We welcomed the birth of our second daughter, Ariana Laajaj Martinez
Rachid Laajaj
Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad de Los Andes
Visiting Professor at Stanford
Calle 19A No. 1-37 Este, Oficina W817 Bogota, Colombia
Bio
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Associate Member of the European Development Network (EUDN).
SPIA Panel Member
NBER
AMA Innovation Lab (BASIS)
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Rachid is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá. His primary areas of research are technology adoption in agriculture, corruption, human capital and altruism. He studies these issues from a micro-development perspective, both theoretical and empirical, paying particular attention to the role of information. A lot of his work evaluates what policies can best contribute to poverty alleviation, using most up to date evaluation methods. Rachid published in top economic journals, including Econometrica, AEJ: Applied, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics Journal of Human Resources, etc. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison and did a post-doc at Paris School of Economics. He teaches Microeconomics, Impact Evaluation, Development Economics and Corruption in Developing Countries.