Paula López-Peña
I am an Assistant Professor of Business Economics at the Smith School of Business, Queen's University. My primary area of research is development economics, focusing on labor and health economics.
I study how adverse life events, from minor daily hassles to traumatic events, affect health and labor market outcomes. My current projects span female entrepreneurship, firm productivity, forced displacement, and the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence.
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The Cox's Bazar Panel Survey
I am a Principal Investigator of the Cox’s Bazar Panel Survey (CBPS), a longitudinal study tracking living standards among Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and the host population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
The project aims to: i) build an evidence base on the impact of forced displacement on the economic and social lives of refugees and hosts, and ii) evaluate the impact of interventions aimed at integrating the displaced population into economic and social life and at maintaining or improving the well-being of hosts.
The CBPS is the result of a partnership between the Yale Macmillan Center, the Gender & Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) initiative, and the World Bank. The baseline survey dataset is publicly available in Dataverse.