Florencia Lopez Boo
Florencia López Bóo is an Argentine economist known for her work in early childhood development and social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean. She earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Clarendon-Oxford University Press prize. Additionally, she holds a master's degree in Development Economics from the University of Namur, Belgium. Currently, she is the director of the Global TIES for Children research center at New York University (NYU) and a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at the same institution
Previously, López Bóo was a lead economist in the Social Protection and Health Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she led the early childhood development agenda, the Innovation Fund in this area, and an initiative on behavioral economics applied to social policies. Her research focuses on the evaluation of social protection programs, the quality of child care, and the application of behavioral economics to improve public policies
She has published more than a hundred articles in specialized journals such as The Lancet, Pediatrics, and Journal of Development Economics, and has been a member of global committees on child development, including The Lancet's 2016 series on child development and the Investing in Young Children Forum of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
Previously, López Bóo was a lead economist in the Social Protection and Health Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she led the early childhood development agenda, the Innovation Fund in this area, and an initiative on behavioral economics applied to social policies. Her research focuses on the evaluation of social protection programs, the quality of child care, and the application of behavioral economics to improve public policies
She has published more than a hundred articles in specialized journals such as The Lancet, Pediatrics, and Journal of Development Economics, and has been a member of global committees on child development, including The Lancet's 2016 series on child development and the Investing in Young Children Forum of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
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