Francisco Haimovich Paz is an Economist in the World Bank Group’s Education Global Practice (GEDDR) since 2015. Before joining GEDDR, he worked at the Poverty Reduction and Equity Unit and the Human Development Sector Unit in Europe and Central Asia, and for the Inter-American Development Bank. He has also worked as researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. He specializes in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on education, labor markets and income distribution. His research has been published in the Journal of Applied Economics and the Journal of International Development. Francisco holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.