Claudio is Senior Researcher at INCAE Business School, lecturer for the Economics Department and Researcher for the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas at the University of Costa Rica. His research is on Health, Labor and Development Economics focusing on experimental situations in Latin America. Through his work, he analyzed malaria eradication and primary care attention in Costa Rica, participation in an employment subsidy in Chile and nutrition labelling in Colombia. He is also an international consultant for United Nations and IADB. He received his PhD in Economics from PUC Chile.
Contact:
INCAE Business School
Campus Walter Kissling Gam, La Garita
Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Phone: +506 2437 2200
Email: claudio.mora [at] incae.edu
Publications
Primary Health Care and Mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica (with Madeline Pesec and Andrea M. Prado)
Journal of Health Economics [Accepted Manuscript]
Featured in: En la Academia
Peer Effects in the Adoption of a Youth Employment Subsidy (with Tomás Rau)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023.
Featured in: Diario Financiero, La Tercera
The effect of randomly providing Nutri-Score information on actual purchases in Colombia (with Jeremy Chi-Ying and Luisa Tovar)
Nutrients, Vol. 11, No. 3, February 2019.
Featured in: FoodNavigator
Can Benefits from Malaria Eradication be Increased? Evidence from Costa Rica
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 585-628, April 2018.
Working Papers
Primary Health Care and Mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica (with Madeline Pesec and Andrea M. Prado)
Accepted at the Journal of Health Economics [Accepted Manuscript]
Abstract. This paper uses the gradual implementation of a primary healthcare (PHC) intervention in Costa Rica to examine the long-term effect of PHC on mortality. Nine years after opening a primary care center, known as a Health Area, there was an associated 13% reduction in age-adjusted mortality rate in the assigned patient population. The effect was highest among adults over 65 years of age and for those with noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular-related causes of death. We also show that as Health Areas opened, more individuals sought care at primary care clinics, while fewer sought care at emergency rooms; these changes may have partially mediated the effect of the intervention on mortality.
Featured in: En la Academia.
Research Projects
Product differentiation and buyer-supplier relationships: Evidence from coffee trade (with Octavio Martínez)
Policy Projects
2023
Preventing human trafficking in Latin America: Results from a randomized experiment in girls and teenagers
Donor: Interamerican Development Bank. Partner: Fundación Paniamaor. Participating countries: Costa Rica.
2022
Understanding the antibiotics market and policy environment to address antimicrobial resistance
Donor: Wellcome Trust. Partner: Center for Global Development. Participating countries: Brazil, India, Nigeria.
2021
Identifying best practices, challenges, and lessons learned in the response to COVID-19 and ability to maintain EHS during the pandemic
Donors: Gates Ventures, Rockefeller Foundation. Partners: John Hopkins U., Brown U. Participating countries: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda.
Design and analysis of price protection alternatives for coffee growers
Donor: BID Invest. Partner: MERCON. Participating countries: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua.
2020
Determinantes of green coffee prices in Latin America
Donor: FairTrade. Partners: FairTrade, United Nations CEPAL.
Policy papers:
Speculation and price volatility in the coffee market
The main drivers of arabica coffee prices in Latin America
Future Health Spending and Treatment Patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean
Donor: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Partner: John Hopkins. Participating countries: Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago.
[Policy Paper] [webinar]
Evaluating the preparedness for technological change of SMEs
Donor: IADB, MICITT. Participating countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua.
Determination of the optimal interest rate, identification of promising professional careers in the labor market, and coverage analysis
Donor: National Commission of Loans for Education (CONAPE). Participating countries: Costa Rica.
[Webinar] [Webinar] [Interactive Graph]
Featured in: La Nacion, Seminario Universidad (one, two), Teletica, Diario Extra, Monumental, Desayunos Radio Universidad, Rumbo Economico, ElPais.cr.
2019
Design and implementation of a impact evaluation methodology for the Programa Crecimiento Verde
Donor: IADB. Partner: PROCOMER. Participating countries: Costa Rica.