Senior Economist · World Bank
Sandra V.Rozo
I am a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. My research examines how institutions, demographic change, technology, and conflict shape development and human welfare. A central theme of my work is understanding how societies can design institutions that expand opportunity and improve well-being, particularly for populations facing exclusion, displacement, or rapid structural change. My aim is to generate evidence that improves people’s lives.
Research
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Institutions, Inclusion, and Human Mobility
How legal status, access to public services, markets, and shared institutions shape the lives of displaced populations and the communities that receive them.
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Demographic Change
Why fertility, migration, and population patterns are changing so rapidly, and what these transformations mean for individuals, families, and societies.
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Technology and Human Development
Whether digital technologies and AI can expand access to education, socioemotional support, and other scarce human-development services.
I work with randomized trials, longitudinal panels, and quasi-experimental methods, with work on Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Jordan, Peru, Venezuela, and Uganda. I co-founded the VenRePs panels of Venezuelan forced migrants in Colombia for adults and children and the Syrian Refugee Life Study (SRLS) in Jordan. I received the 2025 Juan Luis Londoño Award, given biennially to a Colombian under 40 whose research and policy work have made a substantial contribution to welfare in Colombia. I also contributed to the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.
Apart from my academic work, I am the author of the book SuperMom: A No-Guilt Guide to Raising Happy Kids and Loving Your Life. También está disponible en español: Supermamá: Una guía para continuar siendo una madre extraordinaria y vivir una vida plena.
World Bank · Washington D.C.
