Sebastian Martinez

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness

Lead Economist

Washington, DC

United States

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Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

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Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 23 May 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Employment, poverty, entrepreneurship, cash transfers, occupational choice, Uganda, field experiment

Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1201
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 01 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 24 May 2013
Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Cash grant, randomized control trial, credit constraints, psychological and social impacts

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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program

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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2019
Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Employment, Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Cash Transfers, Occupational Choice, Uganda, Field Experiment, Labor Market Programs, Health, Education, Uganda

The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program

NBER Working Paper No. w24999
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

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Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

NBER Working Paper No. w19322
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
Sebastian Galiani, Paul J. Gertler, Ryan Cooper, Sebastian Martinez, Adam Ross and Raimundo Undurraga
University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and New York University (NYU)
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Preschool and Child Development Under Extreme Poverty: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Mozambique

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8290
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Sebastian Martinez, Sophie Naudeau and Vitor Azevedo Pereira
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness, Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) - Department of Economics
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Services & Transfers to Poor, Technology Industry, Technology Innovation, Early Childhood Development, Disability, Educational Populations, Economic Assistance, Access of Poor to Social Services, Education for Development (superceded), Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Education For All, Social Capital, Early Child and Children's Health

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Long-Run Effects of Public Health Insurance on the Health of Children in Mexico

, Global Health, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2019, Pages e1448-e1457, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30326-2
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Oct 2018
Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez, Matias Muñoz, Michelle Perez and Ricardo Perez-Cuevas
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP)
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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation

NBER Working Paper No. w20997
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 17 May 2023
Paul J. Gertler, Manisha Shah, Maria Laura Alzua, Lisa A. Cameron, Sebastian Martinez and Sumeet Patil
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness and University of California, Berkeley
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Living Up to Expectations: How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off

NBER Working Paper No. w23264
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2023
Paloma Acevedo, Guillermo Cruces, Paul J. Gertler and Sebastian Martinez
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Refrigeration and Child Growth: What Is the Connection?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Oct 2019
Sebastian Martinez, Juan Manuel Murguia, Brisa Rejas and Solis Winters
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Independent and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Refrigeration, Nutrition, Child Health

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How Effective is Energy-Efficient Housing? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico

NBER Working Paper No. w24581
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 May 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023
Lucas W. Davis, Sebastian Martinez and Bibiana Taboada
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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