Felipe Barrera-Osorio is a Colombian economist and associate professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics at Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.Profile of Felipe Barrera-Osorio on the website of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Retrieved August 21st, 2020. Barrera-Osorio's work on the economics of education earned him the Juan Luis Londono Medal, Colombia's equivalent to the John Bates Clark Medal, in 2008.Portafolio (March 6th, 2008). Felipe Barrera ganó premio Luis Londono. Retrieved March 21st, 2018.
Biography
Felipe Barrera-Osorio earned a B.A. and master's degree in economics from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) in 1992, followed by a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2003. During his graduate studies, Barrera-Osorio specialized on public economics, labour economics and political economy and published a thesis on the relationship between decentralization and education under Jonas Gelbach, Robert Schwab, Wallace Oates, Jennifer Rice and Seth Sanders. After his graduation, Barrera-Osorio became deputy director of the Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo) (2004–06) before accepting a position as Senior Economist in the World Bank's Human Development Network on Education (2006–11). During his work for the World Bank, Barrera-Osorio led impact evaluations of educational programs in, e.g. Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan, Cambodia and Indonesia. In 2011, he left the World Bank to accept a position as assistant professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2015. Besides his academic work, Barrera-Osorio also serves as Head of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association's Impact Evaluation Network.Curriculum vitae of Felipe Barrera-Osorio from the website of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Status: 2017). Retrieved March 21st, 2018.
Research
Felipe Barrera-Osorio's current research focuses on the impact of educational incentives on the learning of children in primary and secondary school.Profile of Felipe Barrera-Osorio on the website of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved March 21st, 2018. In the past, his research has included the role and impact of public-private partnerships in education (with Harry Anthony Patrinos and Juliana Guáqueta),Patrinos, H.A., Barrera-Osorio, F., Guáqueta, J. (2009). The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Education. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications. the computerization of education (with Leigh Linden),Barrera-Osorio, F., Linden, L.L. (2009). The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, No. 4836. the design of conditional cash transfer programmes (with Marianne Bertrand, Linden and Francisco Perez-Calle),Barrera-Osorio, F. et al. (2011). Improving the Design of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2), pp. 167-195. and the theory and empirics of school-based management (with Patrinos, Tazeen Fasih, and Lucrecia Santibánez).Barrera-Osorio, F. et al. (2009). Decentralized Decision-Making in Schools: The Theory and Evidence on School-Based Management. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications.
References
External links
Profile of Felipe Barrera-Osorio on the website of Vanderbilt University's Peabody College