Publications

In Internationally Peer Reviewed Academic Journals:

• Piloting a mental health intervention for young adults in poverty enrolled in post-secondary education in post-conflict regions in Colombia: a study protocol. Frontiers in Psychiatry. Volume 14 (2023). With  Zimmerman Annie, García-Durán María Camila, Araya Ricardo, Avendano Mauricio, Hessel Philipp, Peña-Niño Omar Dario, Donetto Sara, Escobar Lux Martha, Idrobo Fabio. [View]

• Multidimensional poverty and adolescent mental health: Unpacking the relationship. Social Science and Medicine. Volume 311, 115324 (2022). With Hessel, Philipp, Sara Evans-Lacko, and Avendano, Mauricio. [View]

• The relationship between multidimensional poverty, income poverty and youth depressive symptoms: Cross-sectional evidence from Mexico, South Africa and Colombia. BMJ Global Health. 7(1), e006960 (2022). With Annie Zimmerman, Crick Lund, Ricardo Araya Baltra, Philipp Hessel, Juliana Sanchez, Emily Claire Garman, Sara Evans-Lacko,  Mauricio Avendano Pabon. [View]

• Examining the dynamics between young people’s mental health, poverty and life chances in six low- and middle-income countries: protocol for the CHANCES-6 study.  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 56, pages 1687–1703 (2021). With Annette Bauer, Ricardo Araya Baltra, Mauricio Avendano Pabon, Emily Garman, Philipp Hessel, Crick Lund, Paulo Malvasi, Alicia Matijasevich, David McDaid, A.-La Park, Cristiane Silvestre Paula, Annie Zimmerman & Sara Evans-Lacko. [View]

• The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta analysis. BMJ Global Health. (2021) 6:e004661. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2020-004661. With Annie Zimmerman, Emily Garman, Mauricio Avendano-Pabon, Ricardo Araya, Sara Evans-Lacko, David McDaid, A-La Park, Philipp Hessel, Alicia Matijasevich, Carola Ziebold, Annette Bauer, Cristiane Silvestre Paula, Crick Lund. [View]

• Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Psychiatry 2021; 8: 340–46.  With Annette Bauer, Emily Garman, David McDaid, Mauricio Avendano, Philipp Hessel, Ricardo Araya, Crick Lund, Paulo Malvasi, Alicia Matijasevich, A-La Park, Cristiane Silvestre Paula, Carolina Ziebold, Annie Zimmerman, Sara Evans-Lacko. [View]

• Property Tax Revenues and Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in Colombia: A Spatial Approach. World Development, June 2017, Vol. 94, pp. 406–421. With Ramirez, J.M., & Bedoya, JG. [View]

            Previous versions of this work are the following research papers:

• • • • Geografía económica, descentralización y pobreza multidimensional. Cuadernos de Fedesarrollo No 54. With Ramirez, J.M., & Bedoya, JG. Febrero, 2016. [View]

      • Decentralization in Colombia: searching for social equity in a bumpy economic geography. ECINEQ working paper series No 337, 2014. With Ramirez, J.M., & Bedoya, JG.  [View]

  • The Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index: Measuring poverty in a public policy context. Social Indicators Research, May 2016, Volume 127, Issue 1, pp 1-38. First online: April 2015. With Angulo, R. & Pardo, R. [View]

            Previous versions of this work are the following research papers:

• • A counting multidimensional poverty index in Public Policy context: The case of Colombia. Oxford Poverty and Human Initiative working paper No 62, August 2013. [View]

  • Multidimensional Poverty in Colombia 1997-2010. ISER Working papers No 2013-03. [View]

  • Índice de pobreza multidimensional para Colombia (IPM-Colombia) 1997-2010, Archivos de Economía No 382, Departamento Nacional de Planeación. Bogotá, Colombia. [View]

  • Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage. Health Affairs, October 2015 vol. 34 no. 10 pp.1704-1712. With Wagstaff, A., Dmytraczenko, T., Almeida, G., Buisman, L., Eozenou, P.H., Bredenkamp, C., Cercone, J., Maceira, D., Molina, S., Paraje, G., Ruiz, F., Sarti, F., Scott, J., Valdivia, M. and Werneck, H. [View]

• Income-related inequalities and inequities in health and health care utilization in Mexico. Pan-American Journal of Public Health, February 2013, Vol.33 n.2. With Barraza, M. & Panoupolou, G. [View]

Book Chapters:

• Indice de Condiciones Ampliadas de Vida (ICAV). En: Colección de Estudios Subsecretaría de Políticas Públicas y Planeación Social y Económica.  2023. With  Narváez, Liliana; Gaitán, Angela; Juvinao, Carolina; Muñoz, Daniela. [View]

• Bases para el diseño operativo de la Estrategia de Ingreso Minimo Garantizado. En: Colección de Estudios Subsecretaría de Políticas Públicas y Planeación Social y Económica.  2023. With  Narváez, Liliana. [View]

• Más allá de los promedios: Análisis de cobertura del Sisben IV en Bogotá.  En: Colección de Estudios Subsecretaría de Políticas Públicas y Planeación Social y Económica.  2023. With Juvinao, Carolina. [View]

• Impactos de la Estrategia de Ingreso Mínimo Garantizado en el bienestar de los bogotanos. En: Colección de Estudios Subsecretaría de Políticas Públicas y Planeación Social y Económica.  2023.  With Arbeláez, Sebastian; Bohórquez, Natalia; Gómez, Jeisson; Rodríguez, Omar. [View]

• Microsimulaciones de Pobreza monetaria y multidimensional como instrumento de seguimiento a la política social.  En: Colección de Estudios Subsecretaría de Políticas Públicas y Planeación Social y Económica.  2023.  With Gaitan, Angela; Juvinao, Carolina. [View]

• Las interdependencias espaciales como herramienta de diseño y focalización de política pública. En: Reflexiones sobre ordenamiento y desarrollo territorial en Colombia. 2020. With Satizabal, S. & Silva, J. S. [View]

• Retos del Sistema de Salud Frente a la Vejez y el Envejecimiento. En: Misión Dominicana Envejece. 2019. With González, L.M., Ortiz, A.M., Cotte, J.M., Flórez, C.E., Gómez T. [View]

• Situación Demográfica en República Dominicana. En Misión Dominicana Envejece. 2019. With Flórez, C.E., González, L.M., Neira, J., Rozo, J.A, Ortega, M.F. [View]

• Inmigración Internacional y Adulto Mayor en República Dominicana. En: Misión Dominicana Envejece. 2019. With Rúa, J.C., Ortiz, A.M. Flórez, C.E, López, S. y Gómez T. [View]

• Progress toward Universal Health Coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean: Outcomes, Utilization, and Financial Protection. In Dmytraczenko, T., Almeida, G. (Editors). 2015. Towards Universal Health Coverage and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington DC. World Bank. With Dmytraczenko, T., Almeida, G., Werneck, H., Cercone, J., Maceira, D., Molina, S., Paraje, G., Ruiz, F., Mori-Sarti, F. Scott, E. Scott, J., and Valdivia. M. [View]

• A review of the evidence. In Escobar, M.L., Griffin, C., and Shaw, P. (Editors). 2010. Impact of health insurance in low and middle income countries. Washington DC. Brookings institution press. With Giedion, U. [View]

• Colombia’s Big Bang Health Insurance Reform. In Escobar, M.L., Griffin, C., & Shaw, P. (Editors). 2010. Impact of health insurance in low and middle income countries. Washington DC. Brookings institution press. With Giedion, U., Flórez, C.E., Alfonso, A., Pardo, R., and Villar, M. [View]

• The Impact of Subsidized Health Insurance on Health Status and on Access to and Use of Health Services. In Glassman, A.L, Escobar, M.L, Guiffrida, A. and Giedion, U. 2009. From few to many. Inter-American Development Bank and Brookings Institution. With Giedion, U., Alfonso, E.A, and Savedoff, W. [View]

Discussion Papers:

• Covid 19, mercado laboral y pobreza monetaria en Colombia: Efecto potencial de las transferencias del gobierno a los hogares. Documentos de Desarrollo PNUD Colombia, Documento No 1, 2021. With Narváez, L., Alvarado, F., and Chavéz, S. [View]

• Más y mejores transferencias monetarias en tiempos de COVID-19. Apuntes de Gestión y Política Pública No 3, 2020. Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad de Los Andes. With Narváez, L. [View]

• Evaluating three UNDP entrepreneurship programmes for the economic inclusion of the poor in Colombia. With Narváez, L., Rodríguez, O., Cortés, M., and Silva, J.S. 2020. UNPD Working paper. [View]

• Measuring poverty persistence with missing data with an application to Peruvian panel data. 2013. ISER Working papers No 2013-22. Colchester, UK. [View]

• Targeting Greneda’s most deprived households: A multidimensional living conditions assessment. 2015. Oxford Poverty and Human Initiative-OPHI working paper series No 92, 2015. With Espinosa, F.A., Sanchez-Cespedes, L.M and Markaki, Y. [View]

• The Impact of Universal Coverage Schemes in the Developing World. 2013. Universal UNICO Studies Series No 25. The World Bank. Washington DC, US. With Giedion, U., & Alfonso, E.A. [View]

• Exclusión racial en las urbes de la costa Caribe Colombiana. Documentos Instituto de Estudios Económicos del Caribe # 25, Julio 2006. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. Con Forero, G.A. (Racial exclusion in the cities of the Colombian Caribbean coast). [View]

• ¿Es necesario sacrificar equidad para alcanzar desarrollo? El caso de las inequidades en mortalidad infantil en Colombia. 2003. Documentos de trabajo Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Economico –CEDE, Universidad de Los Andes. No. 2003 - 11. Bogotá, Colombia. (Do we need to sacrifice equity to achieve development? The Colombian child mortality inequities case). M.Sc. dissertation. Single authored. [View]