Educational Background

MSc Political Economy and Economic Analysis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Colombia. 2007
BA Economics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Colombia. 2003

Working experience

Secretaría Distrital de Planeación 2021 - currently. Director - Urban Economics Division

Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo - 2020. Advisor - Productivity and Competitiveness Division

Corpovisionarios 2018 - 2020. Research Director. Research Division.

Departamento Nacional de Planeación. 2007-2010. Advisor - Employment and Social Security Division. Policies designed: Income Generation Policy (2009), Guidelines for Strengthening the Human Capital Formation System (2010)
MAZDA - Compañía Colombiana Automotriz. 2006-2007. Sectoral studies, economic analysis and econometric forecasts.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2004-2006). Research assistant, project Socio-Economic Development of Colombia, 1945-2005

Research interests

Topics: Entrepreneurship, labour markets, development economics, impact evaluation.
Policies: Entrepreneurship; employment; and poverty reduction.

Currently, I am studying the impact of policies targeted at the poor. Particularly, I am interested in the impact that entrepreneurship policies have on this particular population. Specially, when they are a part of a more complete, overarching poverty reduction strategy, for instance, alongside social protection interventions. For the analysis at hand, econometric techniques such as marginal treatment effects and binary dependent variable will be used.

	Selected publications by Omar Rodriguez
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Rodriguez, Omar, 2015, Entrepreneurship and its analysis in Colombia: A contextualized literature review, Cuadernos de Economía, 34(66), More information
Book chapters
Pineda, Javier & Omar Rodriguez, 2021, Trabajadoras del cuidado en la salud: Crecimiento sin reconocimiento, in: Laura Porra-Santanilla Natalia Ramírez-Bustamante (eds), Mucho camello, poco empleo. Por qué el trabajo de las mujeres en Colombia es escaso, devalorado y mal remunerado, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15425/2017.381
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Rodriguez, Omar, 2022, The productive role of social policy, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2022-010
Rodriguez, Omar, 2021, How different are necessity and opportunity firms? Evidence from a quantile analysis of the Colombian microenterprise sector, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-019
Rodriguez, Omar, 2021, Does entrepreneurship increase the chances of the poor?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-018
External working papers
Diaz, Yadira, Liliana Narváez, Omar Rodriguez, Mónica Cortés & Juan S. Silva, 2020, Evaluating three UNDP entrepreneurship programmes for the economic inclusion of the poor in Colombia, UNDP Working Paper, More information
Theses
Rodriguez, Omar, 2020, Essays on Entrepreneurship in Colombia, PhD dissertation Maastricht University / United Nations University
Briefs
Tirivayi, Nyasha, Omar Rodriguez, Qiang Ma & Thais Juvenal, 2017, Social Protection for Forest Dependent Communities, This policy brief was developed as a collaboration between FAO and UNU-MERIT, More information