Paola Jaimes Santamaria

Paola Jaimes Santamaria is a PhD economist teaching at the University of Ottawa, where she served as instructor for “Introduction to Development Economics” in Winter 2024 and conducts research on resource conflicts and policy impacts. Her work bridges academic rigor with real-world policy evaluation through advanced quantitative methods.

Her educational foundation includes a PhD in Economics from the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Jaimes specializes in Development Economics, Economics of Conflict, and Natural Resource Economics, with fieldwork examining financial aid programs’ effects on crime and extractive industries’ social consequences in developing nations. She employs spatial data analysis and causal inference techniques using Stata, R, and Python to address complex socioeconomic challenges.

Her scholarly output reveals evolving focus from 2017 Latin American development analysis to current investigations of Colombian gold mining conflicts and pandemic-era US homicide trends, demonstrating methodological consistency in econometric rigor and policy relevance across diverse contexts.

Dr. Jaimes has not received any scientific awards mentioned in available records.

She demonstrates significant pedagogical commitment through graduate-level teaching assistantships, PhD technical workshops (LaTeX, Stata), and course development—creating practical Overleaf templates and GitHub-repository materials to enhance students’ research capabilities without formal student advisement.