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Magdalena Bennett Colomer

Assistant Professor

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Estados Unidos

Líneas de Investigación


Metodologías de inferencia causal, economía de la educación, evaluación cuantitativa de intervenciones en educación

Educación

  •  Social Policy (Research), LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE). Reino Unido, 2014
  •  Ciencias de la Ingeniería, microeconomía aplicada, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
  •  Ingeniería Civil Industrial, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Economics and Education, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2020

Experiencia Académica

  •   Senior Research Assistant Part Time

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    Teachers College

    New York, Estados Unidos

    2016 - 2020

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    New York, Estados Unidos

    2015 - 2017

  •   Teaching Assistant Part Time

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    Teachers College

    New York, Estados Unidos

    2015 - 2018

  •   Teaching Assistant Part Time

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

    New York, Estados Unidos

    2016 - 2016

  •   Ayudante de Investigación Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2011 - 2014

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

    Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Research Analyst Full Time

    Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

    Santiago, Chile

    2012 - 2013

  •   Research Analyst Full Time

    Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2014

  •   Analista Part Time

    Escuela de Ingeniería PUC

    Santiago, Chile

    2010 - 2013

  •   Consultora externa Other

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

    Washington DC, Estados Unidos

    2013 - 2013

Formación de Capital Humano


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.


Difusión y Transferencia


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.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   ENAR Distinguished Paper Award

    ENAR 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.

  •   Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2018

    Distinción entregada a estudiantes por una destacada propuesta de tesis doctoral.

  •   Burke Scholarship Award

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2018

    This scholarship was established to recognize and support outstanding doctoral students studying in the field of Economics of Education.

  •   Fulbright Scholarship

    COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE

    Chile, 2014

    Distinción con Beca de Doctorado Fulbright


 

Article (4)

Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies
Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
Design and implementation of an alternative admission program to engineering: Talent and Inclusion
Incentivos para estudiar pedagogía=> El caso de la Beca Vocación de Profesor
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Magdalena Bennett

Assistant Professor

McCombs School of Business

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Estados Unidos

1
Isabel Hilliger

Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Luis Cifuentes

Associate Professor

Industrial & Systems Engineering

PUC- INGENIERIA INDUSTRIAL Y DE SISTEMAS

Santiago, Chile