Research Discipline/Bio
Sarita is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate and a research assistant at the Community College Research Center. Her research examines how governments in developing countries can design more effective systems to deliver public services—particularly in health and education. Her dissertation evaluates how different incentive schemes affect workers’ behavior and child health outcomes through a nationwide randomized control trial in Peru. She is also developing a broader research agenda on how environmental and institutional factors—such as school infrastructure, early childhood health, school violence, and crime—shape human development, with projects based in Peru and Mozambique. She previously worked for the World Bank, Princeton University, the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), and the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP). She also contributed to policy design and evaluation at Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion.
Educational Background
Master of Arts in Economics and Education, Teachers College (TC) at Columbia University (CU), 2023.
Master of Science in Economics, Universidad de los Andes, 2017.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2012.
Honors/Awards
Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship, EPSA at TC, 2024-25; Zankel Fellowship, EPSA at TC, 2024-25; Doctoral Research Fellowship, EPSA at TC, 2021-24.
Research Grants: CAF, 2024; The Weiss Fund, 2021 (Co-I), 2024; CDEP at CU, 2024, 2025; EPSA at TC, 2022, 2023, 2024; CIES-Peru, 2019, 2022, 2024; CAE at TC, 2024; UNICEF-Mozambique, 2021 (Co-I); GIZ-Mozambique, 2021 (Co-I); Education Overdeck, 2020 (Co-I); Leibniz Association, 2020 (Co-I); CEDLAS-Argentina, 2015.
Publications/Exhibitions
Amaral, S., Garcia-Ramos, A., Gulesci, S., Ramos, A., Ore-Quispe, S. P., & Sviatschi, M. M. (2024, November). Gender-based violence in schools and girls’ education: Experimental evidence from Mozambique (NBER Working Paper No. 33203). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w33203
Last Updated: Jul 14, 2025