Dr. Gerardo Largoza
Associate Professor
Educational Background
Ph.D. in Development Studies, DLSU, Philippines
M.A. Economics of the European Union, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Dr. Largoza is an associate professor at SOE, and has been with the faculty since 1992. In that time, he held posts as Vice-Chair, Deputy Director at the Angelo King Institute, and Department Chair; he has also done a couple of stints as visiting lecturer at Soka University in Japan. His Ph.D is in Development Studies (DLSU, 2007; supervisor Prof. Madelene Sta. Maria) with a dissertation experimentally testing altruism propositions from Sikolohiyang Pilipino.
Dr. Largoza currently handles undergraduate thesis advising (unintended consequences of PhilHealth’s No-Balance Billing policy) and Ph.D advising (K-12 implementation fidelity and measuring learning losses)
He is the Executive Director of the DLSU Strategic Management & Quality Assurance Office Assessor and the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA)
Research Interest
In 2023, Dr. Largoza has been working on three projects: the first is a paper (with Christopher Cabuay and Albert Lamberte) on how selected Asian governments brokered development deals to re-orient domestic conglomerates toward international markets. The second is a paper (with Ma. Fe Carmen Dabbay) on K-12 implementation fidelity, estimating learning losses from PH high schools whose actual practices deviated significantly from Dep-Ed approved K-12 transition plans. The third is a paper (with Gabriella Montinola and Sun-Ki Chai) experimentally testing whether and how descriptive representations of women in government promote foreign aid effectiveness.
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