LELYS DINARTE DIAZ Development Research Group. The World Bank. 1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA. e-mail: [email protected] http://www.lelysdinarte.com FIELDS Development economics, economics of crime, economics of education. EDUCATION Ponticia Universidad Católica de Chile | Santiago, Chile Ph.D. in Economics. With distinction. 2018 M.Sc. in Economics. With honors. 2016 Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios | San Salvador, El Salvador B.S. in Economics. Summa Cum Laude 2010 EMPLOYMENT The World Bank | Washington, DC. 2018 - date Economist. Development Research Group. UNICEF | El Salvador 2017-2018 Consultant of the project Returns of Early Childhood Interventions in El Salvador UNDP | El Salvador 2013 Consultant of the project Post-2015 Human Development Agenda WWU-Universität Münster | Münster Germany. 2012 Visiting Researcher at AFO-Research Oce. GIZ | El Salvador. 2010-2011 Economist PUBLICATIONS Montoya, Maria, Maria Susperreguey, Lelys Dinarte, Frederick J. Morrison, Ernesto San Martin, Cristian A. Rojas-Barahona, and Carla E. Förster. Executive function in Chilean preschool children: Do short-term memory, working memory, and response inhibition contribute dierentially to early academic skills?. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 46 (2019): 187-200. WORKING Dinarte, Lelys, and Pablo Egana-delSol (2020). Preventing Violence in the Most Vio- PAPERS lent Contexts. Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence. World Bank Policy Re- search Working Paper 8862. Submitted Dinarte, Lelys (2020). Peer Eects on Violence. Experimental Evidence in El Salva- dor. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9187. Submitted Baires, Wilber, Lelys Dinarte, and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla (2020). Unintended Eects of Roads: Labor, Education and Crime in El Salvador. WORK IN Dinarte, Lelys, Pablo Egana-DelSol, and Claudia Martinez. Non-Cognitive Skills De- PROGRESS velopment and School-Based Violence Reduction in Central America. Pre-results review submitted Bandeira, Antonella, Lelys Dinarte, Sandra Rozo, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, Micaela Sviatschi, and Hernan Winkler. Repatriations, Jobs, and Firms: Evidence from El Sal- vador Dinarte, Lelys, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, and Hernan Winkler. Gangs'Competition, Child Labor, and Educational Outcomes in El Salvador. Bendini, Magdalena, Lelys Dinarte, Alaka Holla, and Iva Trako. A Systematic Review of the Eects of Preschool Interventions. Bendini, Magdalena, and Lelys Dinarte. Maternal Depression and Early Childhood Cognitive Development: Evidence from Peru. Dinarte, Lelys, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, and Hernan Winkler. Tracing out the eects of Crime and Violence using a Matched Employer-Employee dataset. Dinarte, Lelys, and Julio Galarraga. Long-Term Eects of Roads on Economic Perfor- mance in Ecuador. Bernal, Gloria, Lelys Dinarte, Sergio Arango, and Daniel Tascon. Do Principals Mat- ter? Evidence from Colombia. Bassi, Marina, Lelys Dinarte, Maria Marta Ferreyra, and Sergio Urzua. Value-Added of Short Cycle Programs in Colombia. Dinarte, Lelys, and Alan Rico. Do we educate in the same way? Determinants of Edu- cation Quality in Nicaragua. Christian, Paul, Lelys Dinarte, Jonas Heirman, Saahil Karpey, Erin Kelley, Florence Kondylis, Gregory Lane, and John Loeser. Gender Gaps in Earnings and Economic Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from 6 Countries. Dinarte, Lelys, Francisco Haimovich, Mauricio Romero, and Marcela Silveyra. Socio- emotional Skills in Preschool. Evidence from Mexico. Amaral, Soa, Lelys Dinarte, Patricio Dominguez, Santiago Perez. Addressing Paren- tal Stress During the Pandemic: The Eect of Coping and Non-Violent Parenting. CONFERENCES 2020. ASSA Meeting, BREAD (Mental Health Workshop), Texas A&MU Crime Eco- nomics Online Seminar, GWU (Economics of Education Seminar). 2019. Brown University-Watson Institute, SEA 89th Annual Meeting, WADES, TX Economics of Crime Workshop (Texas A&MU). 2018. LACEA-LAMES, RIDGE Forum (Public Economics), Job Market Seminars at World Bank, IADB-RES, U. Javeriana, U. Los Andes, U. del Rosario 2017. NEUDC (Boston). FEN-Universidad de Chile, UDP, CESS-Universidad de San- tiago and PUC Seminars (Santiago). SECHI Annual Meeting. 5th EH Clio Lab An- nual Conference (Santiago). 1st Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics (Bogotá). ESA World Meeting (San Diego, CA). 7th Annual Meeting of America Latina Crime and Policy Network AL CAPONE (Santiago). 10th Maastricht Behavioral and Expe- rimental Economics Symposium and 3rd Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Sym- posium. PUC Seminar. Centre for Experimental Social Sciences Seminar. 5th Antigua Experimental Economics Conference (Guatemala). 2016: 1st Multidisciplinary Conference (Chile). International Summer School in Ap- plied Microeconomics (Germany). OTHER Referee Services: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, World Bank Economic Review, ACADEMIC Latin American Journal of Economics (LAJE), IDB Working Paper Series. ACTIVITIES Membership: LACEA, SECHI, ESA, AEA. Conference Organization: Interdisciplinary PhD meeting (2016). GRANTS, World Bank Research Support Budget for project Addressing Parental Stress FELLOWSHIPS During the Pandemic... US$79,000. AND AWARDS World Bank Early Learning Partnership Fund for the project Addressing Paren- tal Stress During the Pandemic... US$9,100. IDB Research Support Budget for project Addressing Parental Stress During the Pandemic.... Co-PI. US$150,000. World Bank Research Support Budget for project Socioemotional Skills in Pres- chool. Evidence from Mexico US$20,000. EFO funding for project Socioemotional Skills in Preschool. Evidence from Me- xico US$94,800. World Bank Research Support BudgetData Collection Windowfor project Distribution of Violent Crimes... US$30,000. World Bank LAC-Gender Innovation Lab Grant for project Crime Exposure and Women's Economic Decisions in the Most Violent Contexts. IDB Research Support Funding for project Repatriations, Jobs and Firms.... US$18,000. WFP-DIME Grant for project Cash-Based Transfers and Women Economic De- cisions. Experimental Evidence from El Salvador.. Implementing Partner: World Food Program. US$290,000. Templeton World Charity Foundation Grant for project Building the Local Case for Character Development in High Conict Settings in the Northern Triangle in Central America. Principal Investigator. Co-PI: Claudia Martinez and Pablo Egana. Implementing Partner: Glasswing International. US$233,783.57. Grants for Graduate Thesis 2016. CEDLAS, Argentina. Project: Peer eects in After School programs. Evidence from El Salvador. (2016-2017). US$6,000 Fellowship for Research Dissemination. VRI Ponticia Universidad Católica de Chile. (2015, 2016). Dr. Vicente Vita Rodriguez 2015 Award for Do we educate all the same?..., Cen- tral Bank of Nicaragua. National Commission for Scientic and Technological Research (CONICYT) Scholarship. Chile (2014-2017). Teaching Assistant Scholarship. Ponticia Universidad Católica de Chile. (2013). International Leadership Training Scholarship, German International Coopera- tion, GIZ (2011-2012). Fellowship for Undergraduate Studies: Beca Rector ESEN (2008-2009) and Se- ñor Presidente (2005-2009) LANGUAGES Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), German (Basic)..