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
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