Curriculum Vitæ. Darwin CORTÉS. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Rosario University

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1 Curriculum Vitæ Darwin CORTÉS Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Rosario University Address: Calle , Bogota, Colombia Phone: (+571) ext. 648 Fax: (+571) Education University of Toulouse 1, TSE, Toulouse, Francia 2008 Ph.D. in economics 2003 M.Phill. (Diplôme Européen d Etudes Quantitatives Approfondies) 2002 M.Sc. in economics (DEA Economie Mathématique et Econométrie) National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia 2000 M.A. in economics (Magíster en Teoría y Política Económica) Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia 1996 B.A. in economics Past Positions Researcher, Research Training Network EEEPE - Marie Curie, University of Padua, Italy Researcher and Assistant Instructor (ATER), University of Toulouse 1, France January 2006 August 2002 Visiting Researcher, Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia Visiting Professor, Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia Junior Researcher, Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia 1997 Researcher, Ministry of National Education, Bogotá, Colombia

2 Awards and Scholarships Colfuturo scholarship Marie-Curie scholarship, European Comission Teaching and research scholarship (ATER), Université de Toulouse Ph.D. scholarship Colombia s Central Bank 2003 Liborio Zerda Prize to the best research project, Rosario University 2000 M.A. thesis with honors, National University of Colombia M.A. scholarship, National University of Colombia Fields of interest Public economics, Economics of Education, Economics of crime, Development economics Work in progress Do more decentralized local governments do better? Effects of the 2001 reform in Colombia on enrolment Juvenile Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission, with Guido Friebel and Darío Maldonado Expenditure system of Colombian households, , with Jorge Pérez Effects of Decentralization on Quality of Education in Private Schools, with José Alberto Guerra Working papers Partial Decentralization as a Safeguard Against Regional Favoritism, manuscript. An approximation to the standard of living index: the colombian case, with Luis Gamboa and Jorge González. Borradores de investigación, 18, F. de Economía, U. Rosario, Development, well-being and interpersonal comparisons (in Spanish), with Andrés Casas and Luis Gamboa. Borradores de investigación, 14, F. de Economía, U. Rosario, Relationship between college academic achievement and the ICFES exam for the students at the Department of Economics, Universidad del Rosario (in Spanish), with Luis Piñeros, manuscript, 1999 A discussion on welfare and well-being (in Spanish), with Luis Gamboa. Borradores de investigación, 1, F. de Economía, U. Rosario, 1998.

3 The cost of the inefficiency of the Colombian Public Education System (in Spanish), with Luis Piñeros and Alberto Rodríguez, Ministry of National Education, manuscript, 1997 The Efficient Per-pupil Transfer in the Colombian Public Education System (in Spanish), with Luis Piñeros and Alberto Rodríguez, Ministry of National Education, manuscript, 1997 Publications Interpersonal comparisons and the assessment of alternative social states (in Spanish), Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2003 (coauthors: Andrés Casas, Luis Gamboa) Intention-based Economic Theories of Reciprocity, Revista de Economía, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, 2002 Spending in health of Colombian households (in Spanish), Lecturas de Economía, Universidad de Antioquia, 2002 (coauthors: Manuel Ramírez, Juan Gallego) Some analytical considerations on the Standard of Living (in Spanish), Revista de Economía, Universidad del Rosario, 2000 (coauthors: Luis Gamboa, Jorge González) ICV: Toward a measure of Standard of Living (in Spanish), Coyuntura Social, Fedesarrollo, 1999 (coauthors: Luis Gamboa, Jorge González) Profile of public schools with high performance in the ICFES exam (in Spanish), Revista Edu.co, Ministerio de Educación Nacional, 1998 Conference presentations 2009 European Meeting of the Econometric Society, UAB-Pompeu Fabra Universities, Barcelona, Spain 2008 European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland; Congress on Colombian Economy - 50 years CEDE, Andes University, Bogota, Colombia 2007 Association of Southern European Economic Theorist, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Andes University, Bogota, Colombia; Latin American meetings of the Econometric Society, Andes University, Bogota, Colombia 2006 First Meeting of the Young Researchers of Economics of Education and Economic Policy in Europe, London School of Economics, London, UK 2005 Public Economic Theory (PET), Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; PAI Research Meeting, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium; CORE-IDEI Conference on Public Economics, University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France

4 Seminar presentations 2009 Lunch seminar, Department of economics, University of Padua, Italy; Lunch seminar, Department of economics, Rosario University, Colombia 2008 Lunch seminar, Fedesarrollo, Colombia; Lunch seminar, Department of economics, Rosario University, Colombia 2007 Lunch seminar, Department of economics, University of Padua, Italy; Lunch seminar, Department of economics, Rosario University, Colombia 2004 Lunch seminar GREMAQ, University of Toulouse 1, France Teaching experience U. Rosario Program Evaluation, 2nd year master (2009 ); Microeconomics 2 (Game Theory and IO), 2nd year undergr. (2009 ); Game theory, 1st year master (2008 ), Microeconomics 3 (General Equilibrium), 3rd year undergr. ( , ); Public Economics, 4th year undergr. (2002); Social policy, 3rd year undergr. (1999); Instructor Microeconomics, 1st year M.A. (2001); Teaching assistant U. Toulouse 1 Microeconomics, 3rd year undergr. (2006); Growth theory, 3rd year undergr. ( ); Introduction to calculus, 1st year undergr. (2004); Teaching assistant U. Nacional Microeconomics, 1st year M.A. (1997), Teaching assistant Consulting Internal and External Consistency of the Households Expenditures Survey, ENIG , Universidad del Rosario. Funding: DANE (National Statistics Office); Main Researcher. August - October, 2009 Health Expenditures of the Colombian households, Universidad del Rosario. Funding: COLCIEN- CIAS (National Fund of Research); Associate Researcher. October May 2001 Effects of the PACES program on Quality of Middle and Secondary School Education, Universidad del Rosario. Funding: UNPD Ministry of National Education; Main Researcher. March - November, 2000 Other Languages Software Spanish (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (intermediate). Stata, Mathematica, L A TEX

5 Academic memberships Econometric Society and Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association November 9, 2009