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Rocío Valdebenito

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
riv2@illinois.edu

Rocio Valdebenito is a PhD Candidate in Applied Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are the economics of education, gender, development economics, and regional economics. Her current research includes the role of peers on STEM college choices, the inter-regional migration of high school graduates, and the effects of commuting on high school students’ performance. She is also a Teaching and Research assistant at the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.

Prior to the PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Center for Regional Economics and Policy at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile.

Posts by Rocío Valdebenito

Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving mother-in-law approval of family planning in India

In the first of two articles about women’s fertility and family planning, Anukriti et al. discuss the influence that mothers-in-law have on women’s access to family planning services, with them on...

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