Ernesto Schargrodsky

Vice Presidency Candidate

Short bio

Ernesto Schargrodsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He had been previously awarded the degrees of Masters of Arts in Economics from Harvard University, Graduate Program in Economics from IDES, and Licenciatura in Economics (Honors) from the University of Buenos Aires. He is the Deputy Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank and a Full Professor (on leave) at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Previously, he was Director of Socioeconomic Research at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (2020-2024), President of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2011-2019), and Dean of Di Tella Business School (2006-2011). He has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Visiting Scholar at
Harvard University. He is also a fellow of the Econometric Society, associate researcher of J-PAL LAC, member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina, and researcher of CONICET. His research includes studies of the impact of police deployment on crime, the effect of the privatization of water companies on child mortality, the analysis of popular support for privatizations, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption, the effect of mandatory military service on crime, the impact on recidivism of the use of electronic monitoring devices instead of incarceration, the effects of awarding land titles to squatters, the relationship between inequality and crime, the impact of the access to social networks on political polarization, and the relationship between dishonest behavior and public employment.