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Contact information
Citizenship
US Permanent resident / Peruvian
Current employment
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
University of California, Riverside. July 2006-present.
Fields of interest
Development Economics, Labor Economics, Applied
Microeconomics, Econometrics.
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Agricultural
and Applied Economics (USA), 2006.
M.Sc. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Economics (Spain), 2000.
B.A. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Economics
(Peru), 1996.
Dissertation title
On Program Evaluation, Intrahousehold Allocations
and Discrimination. With Applications to South Africa.
Grants and awards
Pacific Rim Minigrant, 2007.
UC MEXUS Minigrant, 2007.
Academic Senate Research, University of California, Riverside,
2007.
Regent's fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside,
2007.
Best Dissertation Award, Department of Agricultural and Applied
Economics, University of Wisconsin, 2006.
Peruvian Consortium of Economics and Social Research Grant (with
Santiago Cueto), 2003-2004.
Peruvian Permanent Seminar of Agrarian Research Grant, 1999.
Fellowship, Ford Foundation and Latin American Studies Program at
Duke University, 1998.
Publications
Agüero, Jorge and Brian Gould (2003) “Household Composition
and Brazilian Food Purchases: An Expenditure System Approach”
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 51:323-345.
Agüero, Jorge; Michael Carter and Julian May (forthcoming)
“Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of Democracy:
Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal.” Journal of African Economies.
May, Julian; Jorge Agüero; Michael Carter and Ian Timaeus
(forthcoming) “The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS)
3rd Wave: Methodology, First Findings and an Agenda for Future Research.”
Development Southern Africa.
Working papers
Agüero, Jorge (2007) "Stereotypes and Willingness to
Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa.”
Agüero, Jorge; Michael Carter and Ingrid Woolard (2006) “The
Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African
Child Support Grant.”
Carter, M; Julian May; Jorge Agüero and Sonya Ravindranath
(2006) “The Economic Impact of Severe Illness and Prime Age
Mortality: Evidence from Panel Data from South Africa.” [submitted].
Agüero, Jorge (2006) “Are Intra-household Allocations
Efficient? Evidence from Monte Carlo Simulations.”
Agüero, Jorge (2004) “Asymmetric Prices Adjustments and
Behavior Under risk: Evidence from Peruvian Agricultural Markets.”
Agüero, Jorge and Santiago Cueto (2004) “Peer Effects
in Peruvian Schools.”
Invited presentations
“Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them:
Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa.” University
of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa), University of Cape Town (South Africa),
Group of Analysis for Development (Peru), UW-Madison, Texas Tech and
Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference (2005).
“The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The
South African Child Support Grant” American Agricultural Economics
Association (2005), UW-Madison, IFPRI, University of Florida-Gainesville,
University of California-Riverside, PEGNet, Summer Meeting of the
North American Econometric Society (2006).
“Asymmetric Prices Adjustments and Behavior Under Risk: Evidence
from Peruvian Agricultural Markets” American Agricultural Economics
Association (2004) and UW-Madison.
“Are Intra-household Allocations Efficient? Evidence from Monte
Carlo Simulations” American Agricultural Economics Association
(2003), VII Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (2002)
and UW-Madison.
Teaching experience
University of California, Riverside
Economic Development: Theory and Policy (undergraduate level),
2006.
Theories of Economic Development (Ph.D. level), 2006.
Economic Development in Africa (undergraduate level), 2007.
Contemporaneous Development Strategies (Ph.D. level), 2007.
Other research experience
2003-2006 Research Assistant for Prof. Michael Carter, Department
of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
USA. Conducting fieldwork for the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics
Study (KIDS) and the evaluation of a cash transfer program in South
Africa.
2003-2004 Visiting Researcher, School of Development Studies, University
of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Research and fieldwork on
KIDS.
2003 Visiting Researcher, Group of Analysis for Development, Lima,
Peru. Research on peer effects in education.
2001-2003 Research Assistant for Prof. Brian Gould, Department of
Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
USA. Research on consumer economics and the dairy industry.
1998 Visiting Scholar (Ford Foundation Grantee) Latin American Studies,
Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
Referee
China Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Land
Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(SSHRC), World Development.
Languages
Spanish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese
(intermediate).
Last update: July 2007
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