Lorena Quiroga Torrelio is a Bolivian economist specializing in development economics whose research focuses on multidimensional poverty, educational inequality, and labour economics. She is interested in understanding how early-life disadvantages combined with behavioural decision-making shapes inequality, human capital development, and labour-market outcomes in Latin America.
Lorena holds an MBA with specialization in Education from the University of Nebrija, and an M. Sc. in Behavioral and Applied Economics from the University of Trento. Her master's thesis developed an Educational Poverty Index (EPI) based on the Alkire–Foster methodology, adapting multidimensional poverty measurement to capture early educational deprivation and examining its relationship with labour-market outcomes in early adulthood using longitudinal data from Peru. Building on this work, her broader research agenda explores how behavioural constraints associated with poverty interact with structural inequalities to shape educational opportunities, social mobility, and employment trajectories, with a particular interest in generating evidence that informs more effective social and education policies in Latin America.