Marta Dormal

 Marta Dormal is a doctoral student in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching at HGSE. She is an applied economist specialized in early childhood development (ECD). Her research focuses on ECD program quality measurement and improvement in low- and middle-income-countries. Before joining Harvard, Marta was a researcher on ECD at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. In that capacity, she provided technical assistance to governments in Latin America on the design, implementation and impact evaluation of their ECD interventions. She also conducted impact evaluations with J-PAL/IPA in Uganda and worked as an economist for the Ministry of Finance of Djibouti through the UK Department for International Development (ODI Fellowship Scheme). Marta holds a master’s in Economics from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

As a member of the SEED Lab, Marta has worked on the evaluation of the Afinidata intervention in Peru, and also worked to examine the effects of violence on ECD in Brazil.