María Adelaida Lopera Baena

Personal Information

PhD candidate, Laval University Web page: http://marialopera1.wix.com/mariaalopera Department of Economics E-mail: [email protected] Office: 2245 J.-A.-DeSève Office Phone: (418) 656-2131 Ext: 12807 1025, avenue des Sciences-Humaines Gender: Female Québec, G1V 0A6 Citizenship: Colombian Canada (Canadian permanent resident, citizenship in process)

Education

2010 - 2015 (expected) PhD Laval University( ULaval ) Economics 2009 - 2010 M.A. University of British Columbia( UBC ) Economics 2006 - 2008 M.A. ULaval Economics 2001 - 2006 B.S. National University of Colombia( UNal ) Economics

Thesis title Three essays in applied econometrics Advisors Charles Bellemare and Bruce Shearer

Research

General fields Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics

Specific fields Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

Job market paper Evidence of Conditional and Unconditional Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Work in Progress

. Fatigue, Rest, Productivity, and Work Schedule: An Empirical Analysis Using Personnel Records

. Social Interactions and Risk Preferences: Experimental Evidences Before and After Network Formation

. Modeling workers’ productivity: An innovative approach to test the separability of productivity shocks María Adelaida Lopera Baena 2

Research Experience

Behavioral and Experimental Economics 2014 Contextual field experiment on risk aversion, Uganda 2011, 2013 Contextual field experiments on public goods and expectations, Mali 2008 Laboratory experiment on public goods and expectations, LEEL, Canada Other experience 2012, 2013 Academic resource person for the Partnership for Economic Policy network ( PEP ), Canada 2011 Research assistant for the experimental evaluation of a sanitation program, Mali Academic visits 2013 Tilburg University, Netherlands Host advisor: Arthur van Soest 2011 Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Host advisor: Juan Camilo Cárdenas

Teaching Experience

2014 -2015 Lecturer ULaval Microeconomics, Integration Essay 2011-2014 TA ULaval Econometrics (graduate and undergraduate), Microeconomics 2011, 2013 Lecturer PEP Policy impact evaluation (summer school) 2008, 2009 TA UBC Microeconomics, Macroeconomics 2005 TA UNal Microeconomics, Calculus

Honors, Awards and Grants

2010 - 2014 FQRSC Quebec province doctoral fellowship 2012 ULaval Grant Grant for the international mobility of research students 2010 CIRPÉE Award Academic excellence award 2010 Matuszewski Award First year PhD distinction 2009 Thesis Distinction List of best M.A. thesis 2008-2009 ULaval 2006 - 2008 ULaval Scholarship International student scholarship 2006 Honour Diploma Summa cum laude, economics UNal 2001 Admission Award Top 5 admission exams to the UNal María Adelaida Lopera Baena 3

Presentations

2014 , 2013 CEA, CIRPÉE, SCSE Evidence of conditional and unconditional cooperation in a public goods game 2013, 2012 CEA, CIRPÉE Fatigue, rest, productivity, and work schedule: An empirical analysis using personnel records

Academic Production

2008 M.A. Thesis ULaval Subjective expectations: An application to a public goods experiment 2009 M.A. Essay UBC Mexican productivity performance, 1960-2008 2012 Interactive manual PEP Impact evaluation using Stata 2008 Report FQM The municipalities out of breath in Quebec, 2007 2006 Report UNal Model of regional convergence and industrial productiv- ity in Colombia, 1960-2003

Principal References

Charles Bellemare Bruce Shearer Office: 2176 J.-A.-DeSève Office: 2154 J.-A.-DeSève Department of Economics Department of Economics Université Laval Université Laval 1025, avenue des Sciences-Humaines 1025, avenue des Sciences-Humaines Québec, QC G1V 0A6 Québec, QC G1V 0A6 Canada Canada Phone: (418) 656-2131 Ext: 11260 Phone: (418) 656-2131 Ext: 5202 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Other Relevant Information

Softwares ArcGIS, Biogeme, EViews, LaTex, Matlab, OxMetrics, Shazam, Stata, ZTree Languages English, French, Spanish (excellent) German, Mandarin (beginner)

( Quebec, February 6, 2015 )