Rachid Laajaj

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 AEJ: Applied, Journal of Public Economics Journal of Human Resources and Journal of Development Economics, 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 Econometrics, Microeconomics, Impact Evaluation, Development Economics and Corruption in Developing Countries.