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Luisa Blanco is Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy, specializing in economic development and international economics with regional expertise in Latin America. She maintains significant cross-institutional affiliations including positions as Scholar at UCLA's RCMAR-CHIME, Visiting Senior Scholar at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Adjunct Researcher at RAND Corporation, and Research Fellow at Oxford's Harris Manchester College.
Her research examines three interconnected domains: financial behavior of minority populations (particularly retirement planning for Hispanics), economic development challenges in Latin America (including institutions, democracy, crime, and resource economics), and policy impacts in developing economies. Methodologically, she employs randomized controlled trials, spatial econometrics, and qualitative approaches to investigate these themes.
Blanco's publications demonstrate consistent focus on development economics, security institutions, financial inclusion, and Latin American political economy. Recent work shows growing emphasis on digital financial interventions and behavioral economics applications for minority communities.
She leads significant funded projects including a community-based randomized trial on retirement education and the mobile money diary project tracking Hispanic financial behaviors. Her teaching centers on macroeconomic policy, global economics, and Latin American development at Pepperdine's graduate policy school.
