CV and more information on my personal website

I am a Research and Policy Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Europe. I obtained my PhD at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University with the thesis: “Beyond Boundaries: Integrating Refugees and Consolidating Farmland. Essays in Experimental and Development Economics”. 

I was a Robert S. McNamara Fellow at DIME - World Bank in 2021-2022. I have visited the IIES - Stockholm University for several periods between 2018-2022. In the fall semester 2019 I visited the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University. 

Previously, I worked in Uganda and Tanzania managing impact evaluations for the World Bank & Innovations for Poverty Action. Also, I conducted a research study in the Ivory Coast on an UN-IFAD's program related to ex-combatants reintegration through agriculture. I hold a master's degree in Agricultural Economics/Rural Development from Ghent University & Humboldt University of Berlin and a bachelor in Political Science from Roma Tre University. 

I am proudly Bolivian and naturalized-Italian citizen.

	Selected publications by Mariajose Silva Vargas
Research reports
Loiacono, Francesco & Mariajose Silva Vargas, 2019, Improving Access To Labour Markets for Refugees: Evidence from Uganda, Progress report for the International Growth Center (IGC), More information
Theses
Silva Vargas, Mariajose, 2024, Beyond Boundaries: Integrating Refugees and Consolidating Farmland. Essays in experimental and development economics, PhD dissertation Maastricht University, More information
Briefs
Loiacono, Francesco & Mariajose Silva Vargas, 2019, Policy Brief: Improving access to labour markets for refugees: Evidence from Uganda, Policy Brief for the International Growth Center (IGC Uganda), More information
Other (editorship, media appearance, keynote, etc.)
Loiacono, Francesco, Mariajose Silva Vargas & Apollo TUMUSIIME, 2020, We Need More Respectful and Inclusive Experiments in Development Economics: A Proposal, Promarket blog, Proposal to improve the ethics of experiments in the Global South, More information