Alejandra Ramos

Gender-based School Violence

During her stay at CESifo, Alejandra Ramos will be working with Sofia Amaral and others on the project “Reducing Gender-Based Violence in Schools in Mozambique”. In this project the researchers study whether providing information on gender-based violence to boys and girls reduces violence and improves learning outcomes. To do so, they have partnered with the Ministry in Education, UNICEF and the NGO Girls Child Rights to design and implement a large-scale intervention among 9,520 boys and girls attending 340 primary schools in Mozambique. After the baseline data collection and implementation in 2021, the endline fieldwork will take place in June 2022. Ms. Ramos will devote her visit to CESifo to analyzing the effects of their campaign and on the channels through which information may potentially reduce violence.

Ms. Ramos is an applied microeconomist with a focus on development. Her research interests are intra-household decision making, intimate partner violence, and education. She is a development economist focusing on education and gender. In the field of education, she specializes in how to retain and motivate talented teachers. In the field of gender, Ms. Ramos specializes in the economics of intimate partner violence and gender norms. Her research combines economic models with primary data collection and credible identification strategies to shed light on the drivers of violence within couples. These methodological features allow her to formulate and simulate policies to reduce violence against women.

Alejandra Ramos is an Assistant Profesor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit (TIME). She obtained her PhD in Economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and holds a Masters in Economic Analysis from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, an MSc in Economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Masters in Economics from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics and in Labour Economics and has been used to inform education policies in Latin-American and Caribbean.