Samantha De Martino

Samantha De Martino is an Economist in the Mind, Behavior, and Development (eMBeD) team, the behavioral science unit of the World Bank. Her research is at the nexus of applied microeconomics and behavioral science, with a focus on developing and testing new measures for understanding and promoting behavioral change. Her PhD thesis explored the interaction of monetary and non-monetary incentives for pro-environmental behavioral change. Prior, she was an economist in the Sustainable Development unit at the World Bank. She has extensive qualitative and quantitative experience in impact evaluation design and implementation of behavioral interventions for policy issues including environment and water, renewable energy, land reform, health, education, anti-poverty, youth unemployment and social protection in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the World Bank, Institute of Development Studies, Innovations for Poverty Action, University of Cape Town and the City of Cape Town. She holds a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex.