Vera Chiodi joined J-PAL in May 2008 and is currently working on three randomized evaluations focusing on education, housing and conditional cash transfers in France.

Vera holds a Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics. She wrote her dissertation on the analysis of poverty traps, migration and spatial economics in Mexico and Argentina.

As a research assistant at the Inter-American Development Bank between 2005 and 2007, she was part of the evaluation team of the Mexican program, Oportunidades (Progresa) and also she has worked on the implementation of household and small enterprises surveys in Haiti. In addition, she was a consultant of the Ministry of Economy of Argentina during 2001 and 2002.