Ana I. Balsa
Ph.D. Boston University
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Professor Department
of Economics Facultad
de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía Universidad de Montevideo Editor, Journal of Health Economics 2020 - Member elect of LACEA’s Executive Committee
2024-2028 Co-organizer, Latin American Health Economics
Network - LACEA Co-organizer, Special Interest Group on Risky Health
Behaviors, IHEA Secretary of
the Board, Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) Investigator level II - National Investigators
System (SNI, Uruguay) Summary My areas of academic interest include the Economics of Human Capital,
Health Economics, and the Economics of Education. I have conducted research
on the implications of social interactions on behavior and human capital
development – focusing on statistical discrimination, relative deprivation,
and peer effects –, and on the economic impact of programs and policies on
health, and on cognitive and non-cognitive development. I have analyzed the
effects of pregnancy and parenting interventions, anti-tobacco campaigns,
drug prevention and treatment programs, nutrition interventions, and
education programs. My projects
have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH, US), the
Inter-American Development Bank, the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Uruguayan
National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII), the Uruguayan Ministry of
Public Health (MSP), Rockwool Foundation (Denmark), and the Latin American
Development Bank (CAF). I teach Intermediate
Microeconomics at the undergraduate level and Health Economics, Economics of
Human Capital, and Econometrics of Impact Evaluation at the graduate level. Last updated: September 2025 |
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