Amparo Palacios-López is Program Manager at the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) unit.
She leads the Survey Methods Program of the LSMS.
Her primary area of research is development, with a focus on survey methods, gender, labor, poverty, and agriculture. The recent focus of her methodological research has been on labor, informality, consumption, and gender.
Amparo has a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and holds a MA in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) and the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) were established by the Development Research Group to explore ways of improving the type and quality of household data collected by statistical offices in developing countries. The goal is to foster increased use of household data as a basis for policy decisionmaking.
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