Vera Chiodi is currently an associate Professor at Sorbonne University Paris 3/ IHEAL. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University in 2025. She received the « Habilitation to supervise graduate students », (HDR-Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 2024. She was a research fellow and a post-doctoral fellow for J-PAL Europe at Paris School of Economics. She conducts applied research in developing countries (Peru, Haïti, Argentina, Philippines, Ghana, Jordan) and in France, in diverse topics as education, labor markets and child labour, as well as agriculture and housing. She obtained his PhD from the Paris School of Economics / Ecoles des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2010. She wrote her dissertation on the analysis of poverty traps, migration and spatial economics in Mexico and Argentina. As a research fellow 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. She is a lecturer in Sciences Po Paris and in City University of London.
