Juliana Sánchez-Ariza

Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Boston University. My research lies at the intersection of economics of education, labor, development, and health. I study how schools, social programs, and labor-market opportunities shape human capital, mental health, and family well-being.

My current work examines teacher quality and student resilience, access to school-based telemental health care, the labor-market returns to online graduate education, and early childhood development in conflict-affected settings. I use administrative data, experiments, and quasi-experimental methods across the United States, Colombia, and Uganda.

Before starting my Ph.D., I was a pre-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University's Research Program in Development Economics and at CEDE, Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. I hold an M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes.