 
Magdalena Bennett Colomer
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Estados Unidos
Metodologías de inferencia causal, economía de la educación, evaluación cuantitativa de intervenciones en educación
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Social Policy (Research), LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE). Reino Unido, 2014
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Ciencias de la Ingeniería, microeconomía aplicada, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
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Ingeniería Civil Industrial, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
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Economics and Education, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2020
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Senior Research Assistant Part TimeCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Teachers College New York, Estados Unidos 2016 - 2020 
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Research Assistant Part TimeCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, Estados Unidos 2015 - 2017 
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Teaching Assistant Part TimeCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Teachers College New York, Estados Unidos 2015 - 2018 
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Teaching Assistant Part TimeCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences New York, Estados Unidos 2016 - 2016 
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Ayudante de Investigación Part TimePONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE Facultad de Ingeniería Santiago, Chile 2011 - 2014 
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Assistant Professor Full TimeUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Chile 2020 - A la fecha 
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Research Analyst Full TimePoverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Santiago, Chile 2012 - 2013 
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Research Analyst Full TimePoverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Santiago, Chile 2014 - 2014 
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Analista Part TimeEscuela de Ingeniería PUC Santiago, Chile 2010 - 2013 
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Consultora externa OtherBanco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) Washington DC, Estados Unidos 2013 - 2013 
Educación
Columbia University (Enero 2015 - Mayo 2020)
Doctorate in Economics and Education (PhD)
London School of Economics (Sep 2013 - Sep 2014)
MSc. Social Policy (Research), Merit Distinction
P. Universidad Catolica de Chile (Dec 2010 - Nov 2012)
MSc. en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Microeconomía Aplicada, Distinción Máxima
P. Universidad Catolica de Chile (Mar 2005 - Dic 2010)
BS. in Ingeniería Civil Industrial, Distinción Máxima
Investigación
Bennett, M. (2019). "How Far is Too Far? Generalization of a Regression Discontinuity Design Away from the Cutoff". Working Paper, Teachers College - Columbia University.
Bennett, M. & Bergman, P. (2019). "Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment". Journal of Labor Economics (Accepted).
Bennett, M., J. Vielma, & Zubizarreta, J. (2020). "Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies: Analysis of the Impact of an Earthquake on Educational Attainment". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.(Forthcoming).
Allende, C. & Bennett. M. (2019). "Biased Beliefs and the Dynamic Role of Information in College Choice".
Tapia, J., J. Fabres, M. Bennett, G. Marshall, P. Mena, M. Escalante, D. Sabatelli, N. Dinerstein, D. Masoli, & J. Zubizarreta (2019). "Breastmilk and its effects in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and other major morbidities in Very Low Birthweight Infants". Working Paper.
Bennett, M., C. Gelmi & I. Hilliger (2018). "Design and Implementation of an Alternative Admission Program to Engineering: Talent and Inclusion". Studies of Higher Education (CSHE), 43(8) p.1454-1467.
Bennett, M. (2014). "Socioeconomic Diversity within Schools: The Impact of a Preferential Voucher Scheme in Chile", Master Dissertation, London School of Economics.
Claro, F., R. Paredes, F. Wilson & M. Bennett (2013). "Incentivos a Estudiar Pedagogia: El Caso de la Beca Vocación de Profesor" ("Incentives for studying teaching: The case of the vocational scholarship"), Estudios Publicos N 131, Centro de Estudios Públicos.
Naslund-Hadley, E., E. Vezza, P. Giovagnoli & M. Bennett (2012). "Rethinking Sequencing of Pregnancy, School Dropout and Marriage: An Analysis of DHS Data on Early Childbearing and Educational Trajectories in Six Latin American Countries", Report, Inter-American Development Bank.
Bennett, M. & Paredes, R. (2012). "Cognitive Abilities and Preschool Education in Chile", Working Paper, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering PUC.
Bennett, M. (2019). "Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies". ENAR Spring Meeting, Mar 2019, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Bennett, M. (2019). \How Far is Too Far? Generalization of a Regression Discontinuity Design Away from the Cutoff". AEFP Annual Conference, Mar 2019, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Bennett, M. (2019). "How Far is Too Far? Generalization of a Regression Discontinuity Design Away from the Cutoff". SREE Spring Conference, Mar 2019, Washington, DC, USA.
Bennett, M. (2018). "Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment". APPAM Fall Research Conference, Nov 2018, Washington, DC, USA.
Bennett, M. (2018). "Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment". AEFP Conference, Mar 2018, Portland, OR, USA.
Bennett, M. (2017). "Building a representative matched sample with treatment doses". Empirics and Methods in Economics Conference, Oct 2017, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Bennett, M. (2016). \Representative Template Matching". Economics of Education Seminar, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Bennett, M. (2014). "Cognitive Abilities and Preschool Education in Chile". Second meeting of the Network of Chilean Researchers in Education, Bristol,
UK.
Bennett, M. (2013). \Impact of Attending Preschool in Chile: Short and Medium-Term Outcomes". MIDE UC Conference, Santiago, Chile.
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ENAR Distinguished Paper AwardENAR International Biometrics Society Estados Unidos, 2019 Distinción entregada por la International Biometrics Society a estudiantes por un paper destacado en el área de estadística aplicada. 
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Education Policy Dissertation Research FellowshipCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Chile, 2018 Distinción entregada a estudiantes por una destacada propuesta de tesis doctoral. 
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Burke Scholarship AwardCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Chile, 2018 This scholarship was established to recognize and support outstanding doctoral students studying in the field of Economics of Education. 
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Fulbright ScholarshipCOMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE Chile, 2014 Distinción con Beca de Doctorado Fulbright 
 
Luis Cifuentes
Associate Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering
PUC- INGENIERIA INDUSTRIAL Y DE SISTEMAS
Santiago, Chile
 
Magdalena Bennett
Assistant Professor
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Estados Unidos
 
Isabel Hilliger
Assistant Profesor of Practice
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
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