Lucero Carballo-Madrigal is a PhD student at the Chair of Development Economics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm. She holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics with a focus on Quantitative Economics from the University of Göttingen and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.

During her master’s studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Development Economics, where she conducted quantitative analysis for the project Coming to America: Immigration, Political Campaigning, and Polarization. She later worked as a student assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, where she conducted geospatial analysis using primary survey data from Mali. Before coming to Germany, she held several researcher and project management positions in the public, private and non-profit sectors in Costa Rica.

Her research interests lie in the field of development economics with a focus, on the one hand, on the empirical analysis of conflict and foreign interventions, and on the other, on the microeconomic and behavioral aspects of organized crime. In her dissertation, she will combine causal inference, quasi-experimental methods and geospatial analysis with secondary survey data, archive records and remote sensing imagery to quantify the impact of violent conflict and crime on various development indicators in the Global South and to study its causal mechanisms.

Curriculum Vitae

Winter term 2024/25: Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods for Development, Tutorial (MA)

Former terms: Evaluation of Development Policies, Tutorial (MA)