Rodrigo PINTO is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also a Research Affiliate of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO).

His research interests are policy evaluation, causality and applied econometrics. He focuses on modeling, inference, cost-benefit analysis, external validity and treatment effect estimation of social experiments. Among the experiments he has analysed are the Perry Pre-school Intervention, High/Scope Comparison Study, Abecedarian Project, Nurse-Family Partnership, Moving to Opportunity, and Primeira Infancia Melhor (in Brazil). He also studies the use causality and the use of revealed preference analysis to identify treatment effects in choice model with multiple choices and heterogeneous agents. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica and Science. 

Rodrigo PINTO will present a paper, joint with Moshe BUCHINSKY, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:

Economics of Monotonicity Conditions (read abstract, PDF 23.02 KB)

More about Rodrigo PINTO and his research

Date: MONDAY, February 21st - 2:45 PM
Location: Zoom (link to follow)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Elisa GIANNONE (Penn State) on March 7th.