Sandra Polanía-Reyes
Sandra Polanía-Reyes

Associate Professor of Economics

University of Navarra

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at University of Navarra in Spain. My work is in the fields of Behavioral, Development and Experimental Economics, with a focus on prosocial behavior and behavioral policy interventions.

I serve as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Behavioral Economics - Culture and Ethics and part of the LACEA BRAIN (Behavioral Insights Network) Academic Committee since its launch in 2018.

I am passionate about how motivating and multiplying prosociality. I advocate for the use of mixed methods and reproducible, interdisciplinary research. With 20 years of experience, I have conducted large-scale laboratory economic experiments in the field to study the role of prosocial behavior in overcoming collective action problems and promoting the common good.

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Interests
  • Behavioral/Experimental Econ
  • Development Econ
  • Social Psychology/Neuroscience
Education

  • PhD Economics, 2015

    University College London, UK

  • PhD Economics, 2015

    University of Siena, IT

  • MSc, BSc Economics, 2005 2003

    Universidad de los Andes, COL

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Publications
Santiago Alonso Diaz, Nicolas Velasquez, Daniel Duque, Sandra Polania-Reyes, Sebastian Balcucho, Nicolas Enrique Arevalo-Jaimes, Daniela Pacheco, Tatiana Garcia, Laura Rincon (2022). Measuring Perceptions of Postconflict Actors' Economic Behavior: The Case of Colombia. Peace and Conflict - Journal of Peace Psychology.
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Orazio Attanasio, Sandra Polania-Reyes, Luca Pellerano (2015). Building social capital: Conditional cash transfers and cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
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Samuel Bowles, Sandra Polania-Reyes (2013). Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements? Part II (In Russian). Voprosy Ekonomiki.
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Samuel Bowles, Sandra Polania-Reyes (2013). Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements? Part I (In Russian). Voprosy Ekonomiki.
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Samuel Bowles, Sandra Polania-Reyes (2012). Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements?. Journal of Economic Literature.
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Orazio Attanasio, Sandra Polania-Reyes, Luca Pellerano (2009). Building Trust? Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes and Social Capital. Fiscal Studies.
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Sandra Polania-Reyes (2005). Social Capital and household income in urban Colombia. Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad.
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Book Chapters
The Church in Colombia and extractives: Pastoral accompaniment using an eco-theology of peace
Discrimination in the provision of social services to the poor: a field experimental study
To what extent do Latin Americans trust and cooperate? Field experiments on social exclusion in six Latin American Countries
Working Papers
Sandra Polania-Reyes, David Echeverry, Cristina Figueroa (2024). Structural Identification of Heterogeneous Other-Regarding Preferences.
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Sandra Polania-Reyes, David Echeverry (2024). Government Intervention and Collective Action: Induced Interaction Can Build Coordination.
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Sandra Polania-Reyes, David Echeverry (2023). Boosting the Effect of Peer Recognition on Cooperation? Experimental Evidence on a Workplace Intervention.
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Sandra Polania-Reyes, Angela Fonseca, Santiago Alonso Diaz, Andres Casas Casas (2021). Social Cognition vs. Affect: Evidence from a Media Intervention on Prosocial Behavior toward Outsiders.
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Arthur Alik-Lagrange, Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Sandra Polania-Reyes, Marcos Vera-Hernandez (2017). Work pays: different benefits of a workfare program in Colombia. working paper.
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Sandra Polania-Reyes (2015). Pro-social behavior, Heterogeneity and Incentives: Experimental evidence from the local commons in Colombia.
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Juan Camilo Cardenas Campo, Miguel Espinosa Farfan, Sandra Polania-Reyes (2009). Helping the helpers : altruism as a rational choice of donors to a students voluntary organization.
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Natalia Candelo Londono, Sandra Polania-Reyes (2008). Pasos metodológicos de un diseno experimental para medir capital social y acción colectiva en seis ciudades latinoamericanas.
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