María Bernedo Del Carpio

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1 María Bernedo Del Carpio Department of Economics Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University 14 Marietta Street NW Atlanta, GA Phone: +1 (404) Google: mariabernedodelcarpio Peruvian Citizen Research Interests Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Behavioral Economics Education PhD, Economics, Georgia State University, 2016 (expected) Cumulative GPA: 3.93/4.00 Dissertation: Three Essays on Adaptation to Climate Change and Agglomeration Externalities Committee: Paul Ferraro (chair), Glenn Harrison, Carlianne Patrick, Maximo Torero Graduate Course in Real Analysis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru), 2010 M.S., Economics, Toulouse School of Economics (France), 2008 Thesis: The Simplified Tax Regime and the Informal Sector in Latin American Countries Bachelor in Economics, Universidad Del Pacífico (Peru), 2003 Class rank: 3rd (out of 43) Current Affiliations International Research Associate, Environment for Development Initiative Central America. Employment Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Economics Georgia State University August 2010 present Senior Analyst, National Competitiveness Council November 2009 May 2010 Ministry of Economy and Finance, Peru Senior Analyst January 2009 October 2009 Office of International Economy, Competition and Private Investment Affairs, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Peru

2 María Bernedo Del Carpio 2 Instructor, Department of Economics January 2006 July 2007 Universidad del Pacífico, Peru Research Assistant and Consultant May 2004 July 2007 Universidad del Pacífico Research Center (CIUP), Peru Research Assistant January 2003 May 2004 Group of the Analysis for Development (GRADE), Peru Publications Journal Articles Bernedo, María, Paul Ferraro, and Michael Price (2014). The Persistent Impacts of Norm-Based Messaging and Their Implications for Water Conservation. Journal of Consumer Policy 37(3): Books and Book Chapters Bernedo, María and Paul Ferraro. Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from Experimental Economics on the Role of Risk and Time preferences. In The WSPC References of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change, Volume 4: Experimental Economics, edited by Anabela Botelho. Forthcoming. Morón, Eduardo, María Bernedo, Jorge Chávez, Antonio Cusato, and Diego Winkelried (2005). Free Trade Agreement with the United States: an Opportunity to Grow (in Spanish). Universidad del Pacífico and Instituto Peruano de Economía, Lima (Peru). Working Papers Bernedo, María, Francisco Alpízar and Paul Ferraro (2015). Household Time and Risk Preferences and Adaptation to Climate Change. Georgia State University. Bernedo, María (2008). The Simplified Tax Regime and the Informal Sector in Latin American countries. Toulouse School of Economics. Morón, Eduardo, and María Bernedo (2007). Productivity of the Peruvian Economy: (in Spanish). Universidad Del Pacífico, Lima (Peru). Work in Progress Alpízar, Francisco, Bernedo, María, and Paul Ferraro. An RCT of RCTs: Climate Change Adaptation through Resource Conserving Technologies. Bernedo, María, and Carlianne Patrick. Firms. Georgia State University. Agglomeration and Informality: Evidence from Peruvian

3 María Bernedo Del Carpio 3 Research Grants, Awards and Scholarships Andrew Young School Dissertation Fellowship, Georgia State University, Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) Scholar, Georgia State University, University Fellowship, Georgia State University, 2012 Andrew Young Fellowship (for outstanding academic achievement in Economics), Georgia State University, AFP Union Vida Excellence Award (given to the top six graduates of the faculties of Economics, Business Administration and Industrial Engineering of the best Peruvian Universities), November 2004 Presentations Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) annual meeting, January 2016, San Francisco, California (scheduled) Title: An RCT of RCTs: Climate Change Adaptation through Resource Conserving Technologies University of Memphis, Department of Economics, December 2015, Memphis, Tennessee (scheduled) 85th Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association Conference, November 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana (scheduled) 9th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development Initiative, November 2015, Shanghai, China (scheduled) Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) conference, July 2015, Mexico City, Mexico 54th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, February 2015, Tucson, Arizona Title: Agglomeration and Informality: Evidence from Peruvian Firms 61st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 2014, Washington, D.C. Title: Agglomeration and Informality: Evidence from Peruvian Firms University of St. Thomas, Department of Mathematics, March 2013, St. Paul, Minnesota Title: Location of Firms and Geographically Targeted Tax Incentives in Developing Countries: the Case of the Amazon Area in Peru Presented by collaborator.

4 María Bernedo Del Carpio 4 Research Experience Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Paul Ferraro, Georgia State University Johns Hopkins University, Summer 2013 present Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Carlianne Patrick, Georgia State University, Summer 2013 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Rachana Bhatt, Georgia State University, Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Felix Rioja, Georgia State University, Fall 2011 Summer 2012 Research Assistant for Dr. Eduardo Morón, Universidad del Pacífico, June 2004 July 2007 Research Assistant for Dr. Lorena Alcázar, Group of the Analysis for Development (GRADE), January 2004 May 2004 Research Assistant for Dr. Ena Garland and Dr. Maximo Torero, Group of the Analysis for Development (GRADE), January 2003 December 2003 Teaching Experience Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Paul Ferraro, Environmental Economics, Georgia State University, Fall 2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Rachana Bhatt, Econometrics & Applications, Georgia State University, Fall 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Felix Rioja, Macroeconomics Analysis I (graduate level), Georgia State University, Fall 2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Shelby Frost, Principles of Microeconomics, Georgia State University, Fall 2010 Instructor, Microeconomics 1, Universidad del Pacifico, Semester-I 2009 Instructor, Principles of Microeconomics, Universidad del Pacífico, Semester-I 2006 and Semester-I 2007 Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics, Universidad del Pacífico, Semester-II 2006 and Summer 2007 Teaching Assistant, Macroeconometrics, Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Summer 2005 Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics I, Universidad del Pacífico, Semester-II 2004 Semester-II 2005 Teaching Assistant, Econometrics I, Universidad del Pacífico, Semester-II 2004 and Semester-II 2005 Skills Software: STATA, R, Matlab, ArcGis, LATEX Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent), German (advanced), French (basic)

5 María Bernedo Del Carpio 5 Job Market Paper Household Time and Risk Preferences and Adaptation to Climate Change Abstract. Climate change adaptation is fundamentally a decision to incur certain costs now in return for uncertain benefits and costs in the future. Thus time and risk preferences will shape how individuals and groups adapt on their own and in response to public policies and programs. Drawing on recent advances in behavioral economics, I clarify how these adaptation decisions are shaped by different parameters and forms of time and risk preferences. The magnitude of these parameters and the prevalence of these forms thus become important empirical questions for policymakers. Past studies, however, shed little light on these questions because their empirical designs and estimation strategies are often unable to discriminate among rival explanations for the patterns observed. Applying recent developments in experimental designs and estimators, I conduct field experiments to characterize time and risk preferences in a rural population in the western, arid region of Costa Rica, targeted by policymakers for climate change adaptation investments. Decisions about these investments are often made at the household-level, rather than at the individual-level. Thus, I expand on previous experimental studies by characterizing time and risk preferences at both the levels of individuals and married couples. I conclude by exploring whether my hypotheses about how adaptation investments vary with time and risk preferences are validated by the data, and by describing how climate change adaptation policies should be designed if the patterns observed in the study site are prevalent in other low and middle-income nations. Last updated: October 23, 2015