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Adjunct Researcher at CONICET based at the University of San Andrés and Full Professor at the School of Education of the Universidad AustralArgentina. She was a CONICET postdoctoral fellow at the University of San Andrés and a visiting scholar at the Center for International Higher Education at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. She completed her doctoral studies in Economics at the University of San Andrés with an internal CONICET scholarship. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of CEMA, where she studied with a scholarship from the FIEL Foundation, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Argentina. Her research has focused on the economics of education. Among other topics, she has conducted studies on the most influential factors in university dropout rates in Argentina, as well as others that have explored the quality and equity of public primary education; the effect of school meals on academic performance; the impact of double shifts in primary education; and the development of research at universities in response to public policies for quality assurance and competitive funding. These works have been published in books, book chapters, and articles in national and international scientific journals. She has also supervised undergraduate and master's theses and served as a jury member for doctoral and master's theses, articles in scientific journals, research competitions, and scientific projects. Together with Eugenia Orlicki, she developed the Learning Trajectory Inequality Indicator, which aims to bring the issue of learning quality to the forefront.
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