ABOUT THIS POSITION

The Division of Agriculture and Rural Development (PTI/ARD) is seeking a professional with a background on applied economics research experience in the field of agriculture and rural development to support the assessment of development effectiveness of ARD’s operations through (i) technical support for the design and implementation of impact evaluations; and (ii) knowledge generation and dissemination. PTI/ARD includes in its portfolio various agricultural and rural development projects in different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. These interventions include productivity incentive programs through the adoption of agricultural technologies, animal and plant health programs, land titling, agricultural information, among others.

REQUIREMENTS

• Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
• Consanguinity : You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab

• Participate in the design of economic studies and impact evaluations of ARD projects, identifying the most appropriate experimental or quasi-experimental evaluation methodologies for each context;
• Design questionnaires for microeconomic data collection in the field for baseline and follow-up surveys with the purpose of evaluating ARD projects;
• Conduct literature reviews on methodologies and areas of interest related to the division’s research and impact evaluation projects;
• Perform the sample design related to the collection of data in the field, elaborating power calculations and specific stratifications that allow obtaining a representativeness of the corresponding analysis groups for the analysis of impact heterogeneity;
• Perform cleaning, construction and analysis of databases;
• Participate in training and logistical design for field data collection;
• Conduct micro-econometric studies demonstrating comparability between control and treatment groups to empirically validate the design of the impact evaluation, using baseline data from the corresponding project;
• Perform quantitative analyses that contribute to the knowledge agenda of the Division, applying rigorous econometric methodologies and using the microeconomic data of the projects to be evaluated;
• Prepare and make internal and external presentations with IDB clients on the content of ongoing analytical work;
• Collaborating on the preparation and writing of academic publications in English and Spanish.