Stanford, CA

gabcal@stanford.edu

Gabriela Calderon is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Her research interests include policies that affect gender differences in developing countries, policy evaluation, and the effect of institutions and governance on the provision of public goods and health/education outcomes. She did her master's degree in economic theory and bachelor's degree in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. In the Program on Poverty and Governance, her research analyzes the way institutions and democracy affect the provision of public goods, and the impact they have on health outcomes like infant mortality trends. She is also analyzing the effects that conditional cash transfer programs have on infant mortality.