Francisco Pardo

Francisco Pardo is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin whose research explores effects of technology in education and how family dynamics shape human capital accumulation. His published work examines school quality and parental preferences (Review of Economic Studies) and the long-term effects of technology in education (Journal of Public Economics), finding that laptops without pedagogical support produce no lasting gains. His current research investigates how school closures revealed that children with siblings experience substantially larger learning losses than only children, as well as sibling spillovers from college admissions decisions, joint decision-making in health insurance markets, and the role of partisan poll watchers in electoral results. He has previously worked at the Inter-American Development Bank on research projects in Caribbean countries and as a consultant for government and research institutions in Peru.