FRANCISCO M. OTEIZA AGUIRRE
CONTACT
Flat 4, 73 Fortress Road
London, NW5 1AG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)7923 033 492
franoteiza@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/franoteiza/
ORCID: 0000-0002-3747-9786
WORK EXPERIENCE
2017 - present
Project Research Officer
Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policy (EDePo),
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
2015 - 2016
Research Assistant
Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policy (EDePo),
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
2011 - 2012
Economic Consultant
Treasury Attorney General, International Arbitration Office, Argentina
2009 - 2011
Research Analyst
Compass Lexecon, Argentina
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Programme Evaluation Methods, Machine
Learning for Causal Inference
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2013 - 2017
PhD in Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Supervised by Dr. Juan Pablo Rud
2012 - 2013
MSc Economics, Toulouse School of Economics
2004 - 2009
Licenciatura in Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
November 2016
Research Assistant to Dr. Juan Pablo Rud
Royal Holloway, University of London
November 2014
Research Assistant to Dr. Arnab Acharya, HLSP
M&E of a Development Program in Rural Ethiopia
June 2014
Research Assistant to Dr. Juan Pablo Rud
Royal Holloway, University of London
WORKING PAPERS
2018 - Climate Change and Agriculture: Farmer Adaptation to Extreme Heat
(with Fernando Aragon and Juan Pablo Rud), draft available at https://ideas.repec.
org/p/sfu/sfudps/dp18-02.html
2017 - Satellite data and the impacts of weather shocks on Tanzanian agriculture
2017 - Information, social status and health investments: evidence from an RCT in Nigeria
(with Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Luhrmann and Juan Pablo Rud)
WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS
Using data differently, and using different data
(with Ingvild Alms, Orazio Attanasio, Jyotsna Jalan, and Marcella Vigneri).
Farmer adaptations to extreme heat: evidence from 8 sub-saharan countries
(with Juan Pablo Rud and Fernando Aragon)
The Economics of Self-Identification: a Look into XXI Century Bolivia
OTHER SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017 - Sustainable Total Sanitation - Nigeria: first SanMark impact evaluation report, joint with
Laura Abramovsky and Britta Augsburg. IFS Report.
2017 - Sustainable Total Sanitation - Nigeria: Second CLTS impact evaluation report, joint with
Laura Abramovsky and Britta Augsburg. IFS Report.
2016 - Improving CLTS targeting: evidence from Nigeria (with L. Abramovsky, B. Augsburg, and
E. Flynn), IFS Briefing Note 183, June.
2016 - Sustainable Total Sanitation - Nigeria: Supplier Baseline Report, joint with Laura Abramovsky
and Britta Augsburg. IFS Report.
2016 - Sustainable Total Sanitation - Nigeria: Rapid Assessment Report, joint with Laura Abramovsky
and Britta Augsburg. IFS Report.
2015 - The costs and benefits of investing in a toilet, joint with Britta Augsburg and Bet Cayers.
Presentation.
2015 - Baseline report: Sustainable Total Sanitation - Nigeria, joint with Laura Abramovsky and
Britta Augsburg. IFS Report.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Positions Held:
2014 - 2016
Teaching Fellow - Royal Holloway, University of London
2013 - 2014
Teaching Assistant - Royal Holloway, University of London
Qualifications and Awards:
2015
Departamental Award for Teaching Fellow of the Year
2014
Departamental Award for Teaching Assistant of the Year
2014
Postgraduate Certificate in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning (InSTIL)
Courses:
Undergraduate: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Environmental Economics Postgraduate:
Evaluation Economics
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Stata, R, Python, GIS, Microsoft Office, LaTeX
RESEARCH GRANTS
2017-2018 - Information, gender and health investments: evidence from an RCT in Nigeria, with
Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Melanie Luhrmann and Juan Pablo Rud (IFS, RHUL), IFS
internal competitive bid for ESRC Centre funding, 27,000
PRESENTATIONS
April 2018 - EDePo (IFS) Development Workshop Presentation March 2018 - RES Conference, Uni-
versity of Sussex January 2018 - CEDIL Inception paper launch
June 2017 - Nordic Conference of Development Economics, Gothemburg University
May 2017 - PhD Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London
December 2016 - Royal Holloway Internal Seminar Presentation
October 2016 - EUDN Conference, Brussels
June 2016 - Nordic Conference on Development Economics, University of Oslo
April 2015 - EDePo (IFS) Development Workshop Presentation
April 2015 - Royal Holloway PGR Upgrade Presentation
September 2014 - Royal Holloway PGR Conference - Poster
July 2014 - ESRC DTC Conference - Pecha Kucha Presentation
April 2014 - Royal Holloway Economics Department PhD Conference - Poster
REFEREEING ACTIVITY
European Economic Review; Review of Development Economics
REFERENCES
Dr. Juan Pablo Rud
Dr Britta Augsburg
Royal Holloway, University of London
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Egham, TW20 0EX
London, WC1E 7AE
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1784 27 6392
Tel: 020 7291 4800
Email: juan.rud@rhul.ac.uk
Email: britta a@ifs.org.uk