Ana I. Balsa
Ph.D. Boston University
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Professor Department
of Economics Facultad
de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía Universidad
de Montevideo Bio I have a PhD in Economics from Boston
University, MA and a degree in Economics from the Universidad de la
República, Uruguay. I am currently
a Professor at the Department of Economics of Universidad de Montevideo,
where I teach Intermediate Microeconomics, Econometrics of Impact Evaluation,
Economics of Human Capital, and Health Economics. I am editor at
the Journal of Health Economics, elected member of LACEA’s Executive
Committee for the period 2024-2028, founder and co-organizer of the LACEA
Health Economics Network, convener of the Virtual International Seminar on
the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors (now part of the Risky Health
Behaviors Special Interest Group at the International Health Economics
Association (IHEA)), and secretary of the Board of Directors of the Research
Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE). In 2023 I was the
Scientific Chair of the IHEA World Congress at Cape Town and was part of the IHEA
Board of Directors between 2016 and 2019. My academic
interests focus around the Economics of Human Capital, including Health
Economics, Early Childhood Development, and the Economics of Education. I
have conducted research on the implications of social interactions on
behavior and human capital – focusing on statistical discrimination, relative
deprivation, and peer effects-, and on the economic impact of programs and
policies that promote human capital, including prenatal care, anti-tobacco
campaigns, drug prevention and treatment programs, pregnancy and parenting
interventions, and education programs. My projects have been funded by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 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), the Rockwool Foundation (Denmark), and the Latin American Development
Bank (CAF). Last updated: September 2025 |
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