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Marco Stampini – Curriculum Vitae
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Stampini
Marco
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Public Economics. With honors. Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. 2001.
Visiting Fellow. Harvard University, Department of Economics, Cambridge, MA. 1999-2001.
Masters in Economics. CORIPE Piedmont, Turin, Italy. 1998.
Laurea in Business and Economics. With honors. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. 1996.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since August 2015 Social Protection Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC.
May 2011 – July 2015 Social Protection Senior Specialist, IADB, Washington DC.
Strategies: co-led the preparation of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Strategic
Framework Document (SFD) on Social Protection and Poverty.
Policy dialogue: led policy dialogue and the preparation of social protection sector notes for
Peru, Guatemala, Suriname, Jamaica, Panama and Colombia. Speaker at the social
protection Regional Policy Dialogue, Colombia, 2012.
Impact evaluation: co-led design and implementation of the evaluation of Venezuela’s system
of youth and children orchestras (el Sistema); led the impact evaluation of PATH’s
educational impacts in Jamaica.
Project preparation and execution: team leader for the preparation of social protection policy
based loans in Panama. Team member for loans in Barbados, Colombia, Panama,
Suriname, Jamaica and Dominican Republic.
Economic and Sector Work: led design and implementation of studies on conditional cash
transfers (long term impacts; operational cycles; expansion and quality of targeting)
and poverty; contributed to studies on behavioral economics applied to health
projects.
Events: represented IDB at high-level events. Keynote speaker at the Forum of the Secretariat
for the Social Integration of Central America (SISCA), Dominican Republic, 2014; coorganizer and main instructor at the Asian Development Bank – IDB South-South
Learning Event on Conditional Cash Transfers, Manila, Philippines, 2013.
April 2009 – May 2009 Principal Research Economist - African Development Bank (AfDB), Tunis, Tunisia.
Jan. 2008-Mar 2009
Senior Research Economist - AfDB, Tunis, Tunisia.
Project evaluation – Ex-ante evaluation of AfDB’s private sector operations, with focus on
additionality and development outcomes. Vast exposure to business deals in Africa, in
particular in the sectors of agro industry, mining, power and financial institutions.
Research – Author of studies on the following topics: Development aid and access to water
and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa; Effects of the financial crisis on employment in South
Africa; Youth unemployment in Tunisia; Sustainable development and mining in Africa.
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Member of the team producing the African Development Report 2011 on “Private Sector
Development as an Engine for Africa’s Development”.
Forecasting – Author of African Economic Outlook country notes (Madagascar in the editions
2008/09 and 2010/11, Comoros in 2009/10), including forecasts on the outlook of the main
macroeconomic indicators.
2002-07
Researcher - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
Research: see list of publications.
Teaching: Graduate Development Economics; Graduate Development Micro-Econometrics:
working with household survey data; Graduate Environmental Cost Benefit Analysis.
2007
Consultant. Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington DC.
Analysis of segmentation in the skilled and unskilled labor markets, using longitudinal data for
three Latin American and three Eastern European countries.
2006
Senior Lecturer. The Catholic University of America, Department of Business and Economics,
Washington DC.
Teaching: Undergraduate Principles of microeconomics (three classes over two semesters).
2001-06
Consultant. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
2006: Analysis of the relationship between farming and non-agricultural labor in Vietnam.
Background work for the World Development Report 2007/08.
2002: Analysis of poverty dynamics in Nicaragua. Background work for the Nicaragua Poverty
Update 2002.
2001/02: Assessment of the impact of two Mexican cash transfer programs (Procampo and
Progresa) on household investment and consumption.
2002-05
Consultant. The World Bank, Research Department, Washington DC.
2005: Formal and informal labor in Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
2002/03: Analysis of poverty and migration in Albania.
2004
Visiting fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
2000
Teaching Assistant. Harvard University, Cambridge MA.
Teaching: Undergraduate Applied econometrics.
1997-98
Consultant. IDSE – CNR, National Council of Research, Milan, Italy.
Study on the Italian manufacturing industry in the period 1911-91: Local development and
dynamic externalities
1995-96
Project Assistant. NGO ISCOS, Bologna, Italy.
Work on various development projects in the field of education.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
1. Alemán X., S. Duryea, N.G. Guerra, P.J. McEwan, R. Muñoz, M. Stampini, A.A. Williamson. 2016. “The
Effects of Musical Training on Child Development: a Randomized Trial of El Sistema in Venezuela”.
Prevention
Science
doi:10.1007/s11121-016-0727-3.
Open
access
at:
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-016-0727-3
2. Stampini M., M. Robles, M. Saénz, P. Ibarraran, N. Medellin. 2016. “Poverty, vulnerability and the
middle class in Latin America”. Latin American Economic Review, 25(4): 2-44.
3. Cainelli G. and M. Stampini. 2015. “Stime dell’occupazione manifatturiera a livello regionale in Italia
(1911-1991): una nota” [Regional-level estimates of employment in the Italian manufacturing industry
(1911-91): a note]. Scienze Regionali 3:121-135.
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4. Leung R., M. Stampini, and D. Vencatachellum. 2014. “Does Human Capital Protect Workers against
Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis”. South African Journal of Economics, 82(1):
99-116 (DOI: 10.1111/saje.12029).
5. Salami A., M. Stampini. A.B. Kamara, C. Sullivan and R. Namara. 2014. “Development Aid and Access to
Water and Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Water International, 39(3):294-314. DOI:
10.1080/02508060.2013.876570
6. Stampini M., R. Leung, S. Diarra and L. Pla. 2013. “How large is the private sector in Africa? Evidence
from national accounts and labor markets”. South African Journal of Economics, 81(1):140-165 (doi:
10.1111/saje.12000).
7. Forbes K.F., M. Stampini and E.M. Zampelli. 2012. “Do Policies to Encourage Wind Energy Inadvertently
Pose Challenges to Electric Power Reliability? Evidence from the 50Hertz Control Area in Germany”.
The Electricity Journal 25(9):37-42 (doi:10.1016/j.tej.2012.10.012).
8. Forbes K.F., M. Stampini and E.M. Zampelli. 2012. “Are Policies to Encourage Wind Energy Predicated
on a Misleading Statistic?”. The Electricity Journal 25(3):42-54 (doi:10.1016/j.tej.2012.03.002).
9. Stampini M. and A. Verdier-Chouchane. 2011. “Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia: the Problem of
Youth Unemployment”. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 7(2):1-35
(http://www.bepress.com/rmeef/vol7/iss2/art1).
10. Handa S., B. Davis, M. Stampini and P. Winters. 2010. “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Conditional
Cash Transfer Programs: Assessing the impact of Progresa on Agricultural Households”, Journal of
Development Effectiveness 2(3): 320–335.
11. Pages C. and M. Stampini. 2009. “No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the relationship between
Education and Labor Market Segmentation”, Journal of Comparative Economics 37(3):387-401.
doi:10.1016/j.jce.2009.05.002.
12. Handa S., A. Peterman, B. Davis and M. Stampini. 2009. “Opening up Pandora’s Box: The effect of
gender targeting and conditionality on household spending behavior in Mexico’s Progresa program”,
World Development 37(6): 1129-1142. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.10.005
13. Stampini M. and B. Davis. 2009. “Does off-farm labor release farming credit constraints? Evidence from
longitudinal data for Vietnam”. Agricultural Economics 40: 177-188.
14. Bernabè S. and M. Stampini. 2009. “Labor Mobility during Transition: Evidence from Georgia”. The
Economics of Transition 17(2): 377-409.
15. Bulckaen F. and M. Stampini. 2009. “On Shadow Prices for the Measurement of Sustainability”.
Environment, Development and Sustainability 11(6): 1197-1213. DOI 10.1007/s10668-008-9174-z
16. Bruno R.L. and M. Stampini. 2009. “Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: an
Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua”, Giornale degli Economisti 68(2):149-173.
17. Stampini M., B. Davis and G. Carletto. 2008. “International Migration from Albania: the Role of Family
Networks and Previous Experience”. Eastern European Economics 46(2): 51-88.
18. Ruiz M., B. Davis, S. Handa, M. Stampini and P. Winters. 2006. “Program Conditionality and Food
Security: the impact of PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfers in rural Mexico”. EconomiA 7(2): 249-278.
19. Carletto C., B. Davis, M. Stampini and A. Zezza. 2006. “A Country on the Move: International Migration
in Post-Communist Albania”. International Migration Review, 40(4): 767-785.
20. Stampini M. and B. Davis. 2006. “Discerning Transient from Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua:
Measurement with a Two Period Panel Data Set”. European Journal of Development Research, 18(1):
105-130.
21. Bulckaen F. and M. Stampini. 2005. “Commodity Tax Reforms In A Many Consumers Economy: A Viable
Decision-Making Procedure”. eJournal of Tax Research, 3(2): 151-169.
22. Stecklov G., P. Winters, M. Stampini and B. Davis. 2005. “Do conditional cash transfers influence
migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican PROGRESA program”. Demography,
42(4): 769-790.
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23. Nuti F., A. Montini and M. Stampini. 2003. “Valutazione economica mediante interviste e-mail:
applicazione ad un danno da interruzione dei trasporti” [E-mail surveys for public decisions: assessing
damages from urban transport disruption]. Economia delle Fonti di Energia e dell'Ambiente, 3: 65-86.
24. Cainelli G. and M. Stampini. 2002. “I Censimenti Industriali in Italia (1911-1991): Problemi di Raccordo
ed Alcune Evidenze Empiriche” [Industrial Census in Italy (1911-1991): Some Empirical Evidence].
Rivista di Storia Economica, 2:217-242.
25. Bulckaen F. and M. Stampini. 2001. “Efficiency and Distributional Effects of Revenue-Neutral Green Tax
Reforms”. Studi Economici, 1:25-38.
26. Stampini M. 1998. “Il Metodo delle Valutazioni Contingenti e la Valutazione del Danno Ambientale:
Applicazione ad un Caso di Inquinamento di Acque Pubbliche” [The Contingent Valuation Method and
the Assessment of Environmental Damages: Application to a Case of Public Water Pollution]. Economia
Pubblica, 1:89-117.
Books and book chapters
1. Ibarrarán P., N. Medellín, F. Regalia and M. Stampini. Forthcoming. How conditional cash transfers
work: good practices after 20 years of implementation. Washington DC, United States: Inter-American
Development Bank. (editor and author of Introduction, Chapter 1 and Conclusions).
2. Ibarraran P., N. Medellin, M. Stampini, P. Jara, B. Pérez and J. Parsons. 2016. Más Inclusión Social:
Lecciones de Europa y perspectivas para América Latina. 359. Monograph. Washington DC, United
States: Inter-American Development Bank. https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/7486.
3. Stampini M., S. Parodi and I. Ramirez Sanchez. 2016. “Evolución de los programas de transferencias
monetarias condicionadas en América Latina y el Caribe: impactos y desafíos”. In SISCA, Las
perspectivas de la protección social y la inclusión productiva en Centroamérica y República Dominicana,
en el marco de las tendencias Latinoamericanas, chapter 4, p. 135-152.
4. Medellin N., P. Ibarraran, M. Stampini and J.M. Villa. 2015. Moving Ahead: Recertification and Exit
Strategies in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs. 348. Monograph. Washington DC, United States:
Inter-American Development Bank. http://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/7359.
5. Stampini M. and M.F. Merino-Juárez. 2012. “La protección social en el Perú” [Social protection in Peru],
in Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Retos de Desarrollo del Perú 2012-2016, Lima, Perú: Banco
Interamericano de Desarrollo.
6. Salami A., M. Stampini and A.B. Kamara. 2012. “Development Aid and Access to Water and Sanitation
in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Tunis: The African Development Bank Group. Editor and author of Chapters 1
(Introduction), 2 (Development Aid and Access to Water Supply and Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa:
An Overview of Trends), 4 (Experts, Beneficiaries, and Other Stakeholders’ Viewpoints) and 5 (Toward
Realizing Sustainable Access to Water and Sanitation and Development Aid Effectiveness: Conclusions
and Recommendations).
Available at: http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/main%20report1.pdf
7. “Madagascar Country Note”, African Economic Outlook 2008/09 and 2010/11.
8. “Comoros Country Note”, African Economic Outlook 2009/10.
9. Stampini M. 2007. "La congestione" [Trafic congestion], in M. Bella (editor), Economia, misurazione e
prospettive dei costi esterni del trasporto in Italia, Bologna: Il Mulino, pp.77-104.
10. Davis B., A. Handa, M. Stampini and P. Winters. 2006. “Does it matter whether conditional cash
transfers are given to women or men? Evidence from the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO programs in
rural Mexico”, in C. Alvarez and F. Regalia (eds.), Safety Nets in Latin America: Tales from the Field.
IDB's experience in program financing and evaluation, Washington DC: Inter-American Development
Bank.
11. Nuti F. and M. Stampini. 2006. “Valutazione economica del danno ambientale in sede giudiziaria”
[Environmental damage evaluation in trials], in D. Patassini and S. Moroni (eds.), Problemi valutativi nel
governo del territorio e dell'ambiente, Milano: FrancoAngeli.
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12. Bulckaen F. and M. Stampini. 2002. “Riforme Fiscali Verdi e Doppio Dividendo: una Rassegna” [Green
Tax Reforms and Double Dividend: a Survey], in F. Bulckaen, A. Pench and M. Stampini (eds.), Riforme
Fiscali e Politiche Ambientali, Milano, Franco Angeli.
13. Stampini M. 2002. “Riforme Fiscali e Politiche Ambientali in Italia” [Tax Reforms and Environmental
Policies in Italy], in F. Bulckaen, A. Pench and M. Stampini (eds.), Riforme Fiscali e Politiche Ambientali,
Milano, Franco Angeli.
14. Nuti F. and M. Stampini. 1998. Introduzione all’Economia Sanitaria e alla Valutazione Economica delle
Decisioni Sanitarie [Introduction to Health Economics and to the Economic Valuation of Health Care
Decisions]. Torino, Giappichelli Editore.
Working Papers
1. Stampini M., S. Martinez-Cordova, S. Insfran and D.O. Harris. 2016. “Do Conditional Cash Transfers
Lead to Better Secondary Schools?: Evidence from Jamaica's PATH”. IDB Technical Note n. 1125.
2. Molina-Millan T., T. Barham, K. Macours, J.A. Maluccio and M. Stampini. 2016. “Long-Term Impacts of
Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: Review of the Evidence”. IDB Working Paper n. 732.
3. Robles M., M. Rubio and M. Stampini. 2015. “Have Cash Transfers Succeeded in Reaching the Poor in
Latin America and the Caribbean?”. IDB Policy Brief n. 246.
4. Stampini M., M. Robles, M. Saénz, P. Ibarraran, N. Medellin. 2015. “Poverty, vulnerability and the
middle class in Latin America”. IDB Working Paper n. 591.
5. Pinto D., P. Ibarraran, M. Stampini, K.G. Carman, F. Guanais, J. Luoto, M. Sanchez, J. Cali. 2014.
“Applying Behavioral Tools to the Design of Health Projects”. IDB Policy Brief n. 228.
6. Paes-Sousa R., F. Regalia and M. Stampini. 2013. “Conditions for Success in Implementing CCT
Programs: Lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean.” IDB Policy Brief n. 192.
7. Gardiner S. and M. Stampini. 2013. “Returns to education in Suriname”. IDB Technical Note n. 560.
8. Bosch M., M. Stampini, G. Bedoya. 2012. “Are Conditional Cash Transfers Associated with Lower Labor
Supply?: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Over the Period 2000-2010”. IDB Technical Note
n. 497.
9. Stampini, M. and L. Tornarolli. 2012. “The growth of conditional cash transfers in Latin America and the
Caribbean: did they go too far?” IDB Policy Brief n. 185, and IZA policy paper n. 49.
10. Castel V., M. Phiri and M. Stampini. 2010. “Education and Employment in Malawi”. African
Development Bank Working Paper Series n. 110.
11. Davis B., S. Handa, M. Ruiz, M. Stampini and P. Winters. 2005. “Agricultural Subsidies, Human Capital
Development and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Rural Mexico”. IDB Working paper OVE/WP03/July 20, 05.
12. Bulckaen F., A. Pench and M. Stampini. 2003. “Evaluating Tax Reforms without Utility Measures: the
Performance of Revenue Potentialities”. University of Pisa, Discussion Paper n. 7, Department of
Economics.
13. Davis B., S. Handa, M. Ruiz, M. Stampini and P. Winters. 2002. “Conditionality and the Impact of
Program Design on Household Welfare. Comparing the Effects of Two Diverse Cash Transfer Programs
on the Rural Poor in Mexico”. FAO, ESA Working Paper 02-07.
14. Davis B. and M. Stampini. 2002. “Pathways Towards Prosperity in Nicaragua: an Analysis of Panel
Households in the 1998 and 2001 LSMS Surveys”. Background paper prepared for the World Bank
Nicaragua Poverty Update, and FAO, ESA Working Paper 02-10.
15. Stampini M. 2001. “Tax Reforms and Environmental Policy for Italy”, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei
(FEEM) Working Papers CLIM/5.2001.
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