Martín is a senior researcher at Group of Analysis for Development (GRADE), and has a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has extensive work on financial inclusion and entrepreneurship with a gender lens, often using experimental methods to establish causality between policy innovations and key target variables. He has published his work in peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics, the American Journal of Political Science, the World Bank Economic Review, among others. He is currently researching the relevance of soft skills and socio-emotional drivers for the financial inclusion and economic empowerment of women in urban and rural areas of Brazil, Peru and Dominican Republic. He has developed projects on the participation of women in electoral processes and on the relevance of political affiliations to explain the impact of social programs in Paraguay and Brazil, and is starting an initiative to evaluate promising innovations for anti-corruption policies in Peru.
Martín is a senior researcher at Group of Analysis for Development (GRADE), and has a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has extensive work on financial inclusion and entrepreneurship with a gender lens, often using experimental methods to establish causality between policy innovations and key target variables. He has published his work in peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics, the American Journal of Political Science, the World Bank Economic Review, among others. He is currently researching the relevance of soft skills and socio-emotional drivers for the financial inclusion…