Degrees

• Ph.D. Columbia University
• M.A. Universidad de Los Andes
• B.A. Universidad de Los Andes

About

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Viviana Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Economics at the Alvarez College of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Economics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes. Her research focuses on economics of education, labor economics and cost-effectiveness analysis. She is also a research affiliate to University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education and the Economic Evaluation Section Co-Editor for the American Journal of Evaluation.

Research Interests

• Economics of Education,
• Labor Economics
• Cost-effectiveness Analysis

Selected Publications

• “Student Effort Response to Shifts in University Admission Policies,” Economics of Education Review, Vol. 93, 102367.
• “An Analysis of the Costs to Provide High-Quality and Individualized Emergent Literacy Support in Pre-K Classrooms,” with Muroga, A., Escueta, M., & Bowden, A. B., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2022, pp. 206-216.
• “Unequal Worker Exposure to Establishment Deaths,” in Labour Economics, Vol. 73, 2021, 102073.