Lectures in International Development (Lid) Spring 2010
Title: Determinants of school achievement. Evidence from Mexican upper middle school
Speaker: Dr. Rafael E. De Hoyos
Time: 1:15pm to 2:30pm, Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Venue: 362 Grace Dodge Hall, Teachers College, Columbia University
Bio:
Rafael E. De Hoyos is the chief of advisers to the under-minister of education in Mexico. Before joining the under-ministry, he worked as a researcher for DEC at the World Bank (2006-2008). Previously, Mr. De Hoyos was a research fellow at the Judge Business School in the University of Cambridge. He has also worked as a consultant to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Mexico and at the UN World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Finland. Mr. De Hoyos holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge.
Lectures in International Development is a policy oriented series that invites leading practitioners and scholars to present practical and theoretical issues in education policy with a focus on the marginal population around the world.
