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Tomio, Ailin

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Last updated:December 8, 2025
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Ailin is a behavioral scientist with the Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit (eMBeD), within Development Impact (DIME). She works on issues related to environment and greening transitions, social inclusion and urban development. Before joining the team she worked as a senior behavioral consultant for PAHO, advising on how to tackle misinformation with behavioral tools, and for the IADB where she advised on several projects related to health and social inclusion. She also worked for the Buenos Aires City Government as User Research Manager focusing on applying Design Thinking and behavioral tools to improve citizens' experience of public programs. She holds a Master’s in Social and Consumer Psychology from New York University and an B.A. in Psychology and Neuroscience from the Favaloro University, Argentina.
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    Understanding and Addressing Energy Poverty in Romania: Exploring the Roles of Structural and Behavioral Constraints
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-09-17) Robayo-Abril, Monica; Karver, Jonathan; Rude, Britta; Tomio, Ailin; Silvestri, Alessandro; Cadena, Kiyomi
    Addressing energy poverty is paramount for economic development, given its close connection to income poverty. Research indicates that lower-income households are disproportionately affected by energy price increases. Such households lack the financial means to absorb these shocks, which can lead to decreased overall welfare. This vulnerability can result in households’ refraining from using energy or using less efficient and dirtier technologies and sources, particularly during winter, which poses health risks. Moreover, global evidence suggests that residing in energy-deprived circumstances adversely affects overall well-being, human development, and environmental outcomes. The imperative to measure and address energy poverty in Romania is underscored by the potential development benefits and the European Commission’s prioritization of this issue within the European Just Transition context. This report aims to fill that gap by providing evidence on critical questions about the energy status of Romanian households. The report focuses on four key topics, relying on existing official household surveys and new qualitative and quantitative data collected in June–July 2023, with the aim of providing an updated snapshot of energy vulnerability among Romanian households.
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    Sharing Parental Leave between Mothers and Fathers: Experimental Evidence from a Messaging Intervention in Uruguay
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2023-03) Querejeta, Martina; Olivieri, Cecilia; Tomio, Ailin; Castaneda, Jorge Luis; Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria
    Parental leave has been increasingly used as a family policy to facilitate balancing care and work responsibilities and promoting gender equality. However, fathers' parental leave participation is still low, even when it offers both job and wage protection. This paper examines the effects of an information and awareness-raising intervention, delivered via email and text messages on men’s and women’s awareness and intentions of shared take-up of a parental leave program. The experiment provided recent and prospective parents meeting the social security requirements to benefit from parental leave with information about the program. Additionally, a subset of recent parents received messages that told them about (i) the benefits of fathers’ involvement in childcare, or (ii) the importance of planning parental childcare. The intervention was successful in increasing knowledge about the parental leave program and shifting traditional gender norm views among women, regarding father’s involvement and care planning. For men, knowledge about the program increased. However, the strong association between parental leave and breastfeeding led to fathers privileging mothers’ use of the leave benefit. The findings show limited impact on actual leave taking, with the message about couples’ leave planning increasing the effective use of parental leave among fathers compared to the information message. The results show that low-cost, targeted information interventions can have substantial effects on program knowledge among potential future beneficiaries. Although these interventions can support more equal gender roles and change gendered attitudes toward care responsibilities, they are not sufficient to shift behaviors.