José Galdo

BA in Economics (Ponitificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
MA in Economics (Syracuse University, United States)
PhD in Economics (Syracuse University, United States)

José Galdo is a professor of economics and public policy at Carleton University and also Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. His research lies at the intersection of applied economics and the evaluation of public policy using both experimental and non-experimental approaches. He has substantial research and field experience in evaluating public policy in countries as diverse as the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Mongolia.

Professor Galdo’s current research efforts focus on measuring the welfare effects of Fairtrade on smallholder farmers, the impacts of vocational training for the youth, the measurement of child labor across proxy- and self-respondents, the impacts of water quality on health, and the role of ICT in developing economies.

Professor Galdo has published his work in international, peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Labour Economics, Economics Letters, and the Annals of Economics and Statistics. He is currently an Associate Editor for two international peer-reviewed journals, Economía Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association and the Latin American Research Review (LARR).

Professor Galdo is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a doctoral degree in economics from Syracuse University, New York.

• Galdo, José, Ana C. Dammert, and Degnet Abebaw. “Assessing Adult Farm Labor Statistics: Evidence from a Survey Design Experiment in Ethiopia.” Economics Letters, Vol 203 (2021).
• Galdo, José, Maria Laura Alzúa, Soyolmaa Batbekh, Altantsetseg Batchuluun, and Bayarmaa Dalkhjav. “Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia.” World Bank Economic Review, (2020).
• Galdo, José, Ana C. Dammert, and Degnet Abebaw. “Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Experimental Survey Designs.” World Bank Economic Review, (2020).
• Dammert, Ana C, Jose Galdo, and Virgilio Galdo. “Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: a Multi-Treatment Experimental Design.” IZA journal of labor & development 4(11): pp. 1-27 (December 2015) Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Jose Galdo et al. “Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada.” IZA journal of labor policy 4(9) (May 2015) Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Dammert, Ana C, Jose C Galdo, and Virgilio Galdo. “Preventing Dengue through Mobile Phones: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Peru.” Journal of health economics 35: pp. 147–161. (May 2014) Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
• Dammert, Ana C, and Jose Galdo. “Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study.” World development 51: pp. 207–220 (November 2013): Elsevier Ltd. DOI:
• Dammert, Ana C, Jose Galdo, and Virgilio Galdo. “Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Economics letters 120(1): pp. 112–116 (July 2013) Elsevier B.V.
• Jose Galdo. “Long-Run Labor-Market Impacts of Early-Life Exposure to Civil War: Evidence from Shining Path in Peru”. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 61(4): pp.789-923 (July 2013) University of Chicago Press.
• Dammert, Ana C, and Jose Galdo. “Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs.” Economics letters 119(3): pp. 243–246 (June 2013) Elsevier B.V.
• Galdo, Jose, and Alberto Chong. “Does the Quality of Public-Sponsored Training Programs Matter?: Evidence from Bidding Processes Data.” Labour economics 19(6): pp. 970–986 (2012)
  Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V.
• Jose C. Galdo, Jeffrey Smith, And Dan Black. “Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data.” Annales d’économie et de statistique 91/92: pp. 189–216 (July 2008) ADRES.
• Chong, Alberto, and Jose Galdo. “Is It Possible to Speak English Without Thinking American? On Globalization and the Determinants of Cultural Assimilation.” Economics letters 100(2): pp. 192–195 (2008) Elsevier B.V.
• Chong, Alberto, Jose Galdo, and Jaime Saavedra. “Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market in Peru.” Journal of economic policy reform 11(4): pp. 229–245 (December 2008) Routledge.
• Black, Dan A, Jose Galdo, and Jeffrey A Smith. “Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach.” The American economic review 97(2): pp. 104–107 (May 2007) American Economic Association.

• “Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Subjective Job Expectations”. 2020. Published in: Alberto Chong and Monica Yanez-Pagans (ed.) Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America. Anthem Press, Wimbledon Publishing Company. (with A. Dammert and V. Galdo)
• “Evaluation of Training Programs on the Peruvian Labor Market: The Case of PROJOVEN”. 2000. In: E. Vasquez (ed.) “Impact of the Social Investment in Peru”,International Development Research Center-Canada and Universidad del Pacífico.(In Spanish)
• “Peruvian Youth: Human Capital and Returns to Education”. In: A. Panfichi (ed.) “Youth: Society and Culture”. 1999. Network for the Development of Social Sciences in Perú, Peruvian Studies Institute (IEP), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and Universidad del Pacífico. (In Spanish) (with G. Priale)