Susan W. Parker is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park,  Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center, Affiliated Professor at the Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) and Non Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.  She was previously a Professor of Economics at CIDE in Mexico City. As an empirical economist and demographer, she studies policies which promote development and reduce poverty in Latin America and has particularly studied the evaluation of programs and public policies in Mexico.  Among other outlets, her research has been published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Demography, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature,  Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Political Economy.