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Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Rutgers University-Newark. I am also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)-Children program. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at UC Irvine School of Education and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Center of Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. I received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 2014.

My research interests lie in the fields of human capital, health, and development economics. My main line of research examines the impacts and interactions of different social interventions and family investments in the process of human capital formation in the short and long-term, and whether these effects translate to the next generation. Another area of my research studies the link between environmental factors and human capital outcomes across the life cycle.

E-mail: maria.rosales@rutgers.edu

Twitter: @Mafe_Rosales_R