Sara Restrepo currently works at the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank with Patricio Domínguez and at the Jain Family Institute as a Research Fellow at the Guaranteed Income project. She holds a Master of Public Policy and an M.A. in economics from Universidad del Rosario. Previously, she worked at Innovations for Poverty Action on RCTs looking to reduce the gap in STEM programs between K-12 girls and boys, and measuring the impact of VAT devolution to the poorest in expenditure outcomes. Before that, she worked at the Central Bank of Colombia exploring lending and borrowing channels and its effects. During her undergraduate education, she received a merit-based scholarship. She also was the President of the Economic student council in 2015, where she led the largest undergraduate economic contest and forum. Sara’s current research interests include crime economics, labor economics (especially informality and gig-economies), guaranteed income, conflict and its effects on society (education, credit access, agriculture, etc.), and behavioral economics. She is from Pereira, Colombia.