Marcos Agurto

Dr Agurto obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics - VSE under the supervision of Dr. Siwan Anderson. He is Professor at the Department of Economics at Universidad de Piura, Peru, where he is also the Vice President for Research. He is also a member of Lima School of Economics and the Director of the Lima Summer School in Economics (co-organized with VSE). He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Vancouver School of Economics from 2010 to 2013 and a Visiting Professor at the Virginia Tech Department of Economics from 2015 to 2017. Since 2018 he is a Scientific Mentor for PEP. He served as a member of the Piura Regional Commission for Consumer and Competition Affairs from 2011 to 2015. His research focuses on development economics, economics of education, social inclusion, natural resources, applied econometrics and impact evaluation. He has been a consultant for the IDB and for the Peruvian Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion. Dr. Agurto has won the IDRC Doctoral Research Award, the GDN Award for Outstanding Research in Development and the PEP PIERI Award.

Fields of specialization

Poverty and inequality , Health and nutrition, Education and training

Projects

Title	Country	Themes
To inspire and to inform: The role of role models	Peru	Education and training
Empowering Underprivileged College Students: Experimental Evidence from a Community Engagement Program in Peru∗	Peru	Education and training
Evaluating the impact of a support hotline for cashew producers in Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Gender & women’s empowerment , Education and training , Agriculture and food security
Business Training and Awareness Campaign for the M-CADJU Service	Guinea-Bissau	Poverty and Inequality , Education and training , Globalization and trade
Can Mobile Money Induce Entrepreneurial and Financial Behaviors of Members of Village Savings and Loan Associations in Rural Southern Malawi?	Malawi	Entrepreneurship , Financial inclusion
Academic Ambassadors and the Diffusion of Digital Financial Services among the peruvian poor	Peru	Poverty and Inequality , Education and training

Details

Dr Marcos Agurto
Professor
Universidad de Piura
Lima School of Economics

Contact information:

Peru
marcos.agurto@udep.edu.pe
www.udep.edu.pe