Sandra V. Rozo works as a senior economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. She is also an IZA research fellow, a CEGA faculty affiliate, a faculty member of the Schaeffer Center for Health and Economics Policy, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California. 

Her research informs policy around (1) the role of effects of forced displacement in shaping development and the role of public policies in supporting migrants and their hosting communities, (2) the consequences of violence and conflict and how to mitigate those effects in developing countries. Her articles have been published in the Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and other leading development journals.

Sandra is a co-founder of the VenRePs Study, which collects longitudinal data on Venezuelan forced migrants in Colombia; the Longitudinal Survey of Forced Migrant Children (VenRePs-Kids) which collects data on Venezuelan and Colombian children;  and the Syrian Refugee Life Study (SRLS) which uses a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of NRC Jordan’s Urban Shelter Program and  collects  longitudinal data for a representative sample of Syrian refugees living Jordan (policy brief here). She was also part of the core team of the World Development Report 2023 on Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.