Fiorella Parra-Mujica
PhD Candidate in Health Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam
I am a health and development economist studying how environmental shocks reshape health, gender inequality, and healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries. I submitted my PhD thesis at Erasmus University Rotterdam in August 2026, and was a visiting researcher at the Dondena Centre, Bocconi University, from April to June 2026.
I combine quasi-experimental methods with satellite weather data, administrative records, and large-scale surveys to identify policy-relevant causal effects. My current work asks two questions: how rising temperatures drive domestic violence in Peru, and how prenatal exposure to the 2017 Coastal El Niño affected birth outcomes and maternal healthcare. I also develop welfare-based distributional indices to analyze how the burden of non-communicable diseases varies across socioeconomic groups.
Previously, I was a researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre (University of Oxford) and the EQUIPOL group (University of York), and a consultant at the Pan American Health Organization and the National Institute of Health of Peru.
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