Fernando Fernandez

Fernando is a PhD student in the Economics department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In the past, he worked as a research fellow for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Before that position, he obtained a master's degree from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a bachelor's degree from the Universidad de Piura in Peru. His research interests include the role of economic incentives in the health sector and, more broadly, the study of economic development. In the past years, he has analyzed how poor households change their behavior in the labor market as a consequence of two public interventions: an electrification program and a CCT program.

As a PODER fellow, he worked on the project entitled "Promoting entrepreneurship among the ultra-poor" at the London School of Economics, specifically, Empowerment and Livelihoods for Adolescent Girls in Sierra Leone with Professor Oriana Bandiera. Click on the research summary link below for more information on Fernando's research.

PODER Appointment: September 2016 – May 2017.