Cecilia S.

Diaz-Campo
(November 2024)

Contact Information

Office: (+1) 314-935-5021 Olin Business School

Email: cdiazcampo@wustl.edu Washington University in St. Louis
Website: sites.google.com/view/ceciliadiazcampo One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130

Academic Appointments and Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Economics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, July 2022 -

Member, Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, December 2023 -

Research Associate, LAPDE (Think Tank), Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina, October 2023 -

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada. 2017-2022

M.A. in Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada. 2016-2017

M.S. in Applied Statistics, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina. 2013-2014

B.S. in Business Administration, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina. 2013

Research Interests

Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Working Papers

“Dynamic Moral Hazard in Nonlinear Health Insurance Contracts”

“What We RANDomly Did Not Learn: Opioid Elasticities and Underlying Mechanisms,”
with M. Antonella Mancino

“Cash Transfers, Maternal Health, and Children’s Birth Outcomes,”

with Timothy G. Conley

“Unveiling the Energy Price Elasticity: Exploring the Impact of Price Shocks through Regression Discontinuity
Design,” with Alejandro M. Danon, Jared Gars, Mariana Kestelman Borges, and Lourdes Zulli

Research in Progress

“The Dynamics of Preventive versus Curative Care”

“The Role of Health Insurance Generosity and Doctor Prescription Behavior on Opioid Painkiller Use and Addiction,”
with M. Antonella Mancino

“Market Responses to Legal Opioid Shifts: An Analysis of Illicit Opioid Supply and Non-Opioid Alternatives,”
with M. Antonella Mancino and John Barrios

“Climate Change, Seed Insecurity, and Farmer Social Networks in Malawi,”

with Timothy G. Conley and Rowena Cornelius

“Poverty penalty: the harm of mismatch for low-income households,”

with Alejandro M. Danon and Fernanda Marquez Ragonesi
Seminar and Conference Presentations (scheduled, † by co-author, ∗ discussant)

6th Annual UNT Economics Conference; Winter Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics; 2024
LIX AAEP (Argentina)† ; Southeastern Health Economics Study Group (SHESG)∗ ; Workshop on the
Economic and Criminogenic Impacts of the Opiate Epidemic (West Virginia); 9th Latin American Energy
Economics Meeting (ELAEE)† ; American Society of Health Economists Conference (ASHEcon);
3rd Highland Health Economics Symposium (Scotland); Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics
Association (CEA)† ; RIDGE Workshop on Health Economics (Chile)† ; Women in Economics Symposium
(St. Louis Fed); WFPP Brown Bag Seminar Series (WashU); Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics
Association (MEA)† ; Olin Junior Faculty Seminar Series; Annual Meeting of the American Economic
Association (AEA)

11th Annual UTDT Economics Conference; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; LVIII AAEP 2023
(Argentina)† ; Annual Health 2023 Econometrics Workshop (AHEW); Southeastern Health Economics
Study Group (SHESG)∗ ; Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina); American Society of Health
Economists Conference (ASHEcon); WFPP Brown Bag Seminar Series (WashU)

Pennsylvania State University; UM-MSU-UWO Labour Day Conference (Ann Arbor, MI); Universidad del 2022
Rosario (Colombia); Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; University of Waterloo (Canada); University
of Sydney (Australia); Universidad EAFIT (Colombia); Stony Brook University; University of Minnesota;
Arizona State University; Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School; INSPER (Brazil);
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management (Canada); Toulouse School of Economics
(France); University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics; Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy);
University of Wisconsin-Madison - School of Business; University of Alberta (Canada); New Economic
School (Russia); Inter-American Development Bank Research Department (Washington, D.C.)

3rd Annual UNT Economics Conference; LVI AAEP (Argentina); International Association for Applied 2021
Econometrics (IAAE); 10th American Society of Health Economists Conference (ASHEcon); North
American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASMES); 55th Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Economics Association (CEA); 19th International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC)

UWO Applied Economics/Econometrics Seminar Series (Canada) 2019

1st Annual UNT Economics Conference (Argentina); UWO CHCP Seminar Series (Canada) 2018

Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships

SSHRC Insight Development Grant - Collaborator, CAD $28,784 2023 - 2025

T. Merritt Brown Thesis Prize for Best Ph.D. thesis, UWO 2022 - 2023
Best Paper presented by a graduate student at the IAAE Conference, Honorable Mention Award 2022
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Productivity Research Fellowship 2019 - 2020
Sir Arthur Currie Scholarship, Department of Economics, UWO 2017 - 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence, Social Science, UWO 2017 - 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, Department of Economics, UWO 2017 - 2018
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Economics, UWO 2016 - 2022
Graduate Fellowship, M.S. Applied Statistics, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina 2013 - 2014

Previous Work Experience

Research Assistant, Dr. David Rivers and Dr. Salvador Navarro, University of Western Ontario 2018 - 2022
Research Assistant, Dr. Nirav Mehta and Dr. Seth Richards-Shubik, University of Western Ontario FL 2018
Research Assistant, Dr. Victor Aguiar, University of Western Ontario SU 2017
Research Assistant, Policy Evaluation, Inter-American Development Bank SU 2014
Teaching Experience

Instructor: Health Economics and Policy (MEC 321/564), und/grad, OBS, WUSTL FL24
Microeconomics (MEC 290), undergraduate, Olin Business School, WUSTL SP23/SP24/FL24
Mathematics and Statistics Refresher, graduate, UWO SU 2021
MATLAB Refresher, graduate, UWO SU 2019

Lecturer: Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina (full-time, tenured) 2013 - 2016

Courses: Managerial Economics, Management Control, Operational Research

Teaching Assistant:
Labor Economics, undergraduate honors, UWO SP 2021
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I, undergraduate, UWO FL 2020 - FL 2021
Econometrics I and II, first-year Ph.D., UWO FL 2017/SP 2019
Principles of Microeconomics/Macroeconomics, undergraduate, UWO FL 2016/SP 2017

Professional Activities

Referee for: Applied Economics Letters (AEL - x1); Canadian Journal of Economics (CJE - x1);
Economic Journal (EJ - x1); Journal of Political Economy (JPE - x3);
Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA - x1)

Discussions: Southeastern Health Economics Study Group (SHESG) 2024

American Society of Health Economists Conference (ASHEcon) - x2 2024
Southeastern Health Economics Study Group (SHESG) 2023
American Society of Health Economists Conference (ASHEcon) 2023
American Society of Health Economists Conference (ASHEcon) 2021

Ph.D. Advising
Student My Role PhD Yr. First Placement Current
Minsung Park 4th reader 2023 Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade -
Margarita Podledneva 4th reader 2024 Illinois Department of Employment Security -
Kiara (Ji Hyun) Kim Committee TBD -
Hyun Soo Suh Committee TBD -

Service

Midwest Economic Association Conference, Structural Microeconomics Sessions Organizer 2025

Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis 2024 - 2025
Applied Economics Seminars Organizer, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis 2024 - 2025
19th EGSC at Washington University in St. Louis, IO & Health Economics Session Chair 2024
Empirical Analysis of School Choice Systems Conference, WashU in St. Louis, Session Chair 2024
Applied Economics Seminars Organizer, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis 2023 - 2024
Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis 2023 - 2024
18th EGSC at Washington University in St. Louis, IO & Health Economics Session Chair 2023
Faculty Recruiting Committee, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis 2022 - 2023

Languages

English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), Spanish (native)