Stephy Riega Escalante

Economist

About Me

I am a Data Project Associate at the Education & Crime Urban Labs at the University of Chicago. Currently, my work focuses on Causal Inference and Machine Learning methods. Previously, I've worked as a Research Assistant at Group of Analysis for Development (GRADE) and as a Research Analyst in many impact evaluation projects at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

Interests

  • Applied Microeconomics & Data Science
  • Public Policy
  • Education, Labor & Gender

Awards

  • Awarded with the Extraordinary Student Research Fund
    VRI - PUCP

Resume

You can download my updated resume with more details here.

Sumary

Stephy Riega

Economist with 2+ years experience in academic research. Worked on projects evaluating interventions in education and gender-based violence in Latin America, as well as projects related to female entrepreneurs and corruption. Collaborated with multilateral organizations and government and non-goverment institution using programming tools and quantitative methodologies.

  • riega.stephy@pucp.edu.pe

Education

Minor in Artificial Intelligence for Social Science & Public Policy

2022 - Present

Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in the Social Sciences (QLAB) - PUCP

Bachelor of Science in Economics

2017 - 2022

PUCP

  • Graduate level courses: Social Policy Design and Evaluation, Advanced Econometrics: Cross-Sectional and Panel Econometrics, Fundamentals of Real Analysis
  • First Class Honours: 3/73 of graduated class

Professional Experience

Data Project Associate

2023 - Present

Education & Crime Urban Labs at the University of Chicago , Chicago, The U.S.

Research Assistant

2023 - 2023

GRADE, Lima, Peru

Research Analyst

2021 - 2023

IPA, Lima, Peru

Research Intern

2021 - 2021

GRADE, Lima, Peru

Skills

Python

ML - Web Scrapping - Geocoding

R

ML - Dashboards

Stata

Econometrics - Data

Survey CTO

Survey programming

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Power BI

Dashboard programming

Git/Github

Version control commands

Markdown & Latex

Text conversion

Analytics

Econometrics - ML - Causal Inference

Research projects

  • All
  • Complete
  • In progress

The education crisis and the poverty of learning in Peru

When migrating is not enough: A comparison of migrant and non-migrant job quality in urban Peru between 2019 and 2020

Not one less in the labor market: The vulnerability of women’s employment in urban Peru in 2020

Coding projects

Python QLAB scripts

Repository done with my colleagues at QLAB - PUCP

Dashboard for data collection in R Shinny

Created to use in field work of an endline project

Machine Learning and Causal Inference

Respository done with my colleagues at ECO224 PUCP

Contact

You can write me an email or send me a message through my social media.

Barrio Medico
Surquillo, Lima, Peru

riega.stephy@pucp.edu.pe

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