In Central America's Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—educational institutions face a crisis of in-school and out-of-school violence and dropout rates 22% above the average for the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean. This crisis—often gang-related—jeopardizes not only the safety of students, but their long-term mental health and economic … [Read more...] about Harnessing Emotional Intelligence: A New Frontier in Combating School Violence
Lelys Dinarte-Diaz
Lelys Dinarte-Diaz is a research economist in the Human Development Team of the World Bank’s Development Research Group. Her primary research fields are development economics and economics of education, with a focus on violence and crime. She uses experimental methods to study the impacts of psychology-based interventions on mental health outcomes. She has research projects in Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Lelys obtained her Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and her B.A. in Economics from ESEN in El Salvador, the country where she was born and raised.