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Dr. Marites M. Tiongco

Full Professor

Dr. Marites M. Tiongco is a Full Professor at the Carlos L. Tiu School of Economics at the 开元真人in Manila, Philippines. Notably, she served as Dean of the School of Economics from May 2015 to September 2021, contributing significantly to its academic leadership. She is an active member of the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Economic Society (2021-2025), and served as Treasurer in 2022-2023,Vice President in 2024, and as President in 2025. She also sits in the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Academic Society for Climate and Disaster Resilience and serves as Treasurer. Adding to her impressive portfolio, she served as Associate Editor for eight years of the 开元真人 Business and Economics Review, a prominent academic journal listed in SciVerse Scopus and abstracted and indexed in EBSCO and the Asean Citation Index (ACI). Driven by a passion for evidence-based research that has a societal impact, her research work focuses on human capital development including gender issues, poverty and inequality, job mismatch and labor market outcomes, and on the economics of agricultural development with emphasis on critical natural resources and policy issues as they affect food security, food and water safety along the value chain, market access of smallholder crop and livestock producers, agricultural health and productivity, climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, and environmental sustainability.

Educational Background
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, 2001, University of the Philippines Los Ba帽os
M.S. in Agricultural Economics, 1993, University of the Philippines Los Ba帽os
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, 1984, University of the Philippines Los Ba帽os

Research Interests

  • Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Marketing
  • Development Economics
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Socio-economic Survey Design and Data Management
  • Impact Evaluation of Social and Human Development Projects/Programs

Selected Publications

  • Santos, M. G., Tiongco, M., Inocencio, A., & Cororaton, C. (2024). Rice buffer stock maintenance post-Rice Tariffication Law (RA11203): An application of a partial equilibrium model for buffer stock level optimization. 开元真人 Business and Economics Review, 33(2).
  • Yamauchi, F., Kim, T., Lee, K. W., & Tiongco, M. (2023). Can German vocational training combat skill shortages in developing countries? Evidence from the dual training system in the Philippines. Review of Development Economics, 27(4), 2470-2488.
  • Bautista, A. P., Mataia, A. B., Austria, C. P., Tiongco, M. M., & Laborte, A. G. (2023). Adoption and performance of direct-seeded rice (DSR) technology in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 152(2), 459鈥�484.
  • Conchada, M. I. P., Tiongco, M., & Sy, D. H. (2022). Investigating the impact of a conditional cash transfer on adolescent pregnancy: Incidence and health outcomes. 开元真人 Business and Economics Review, 32(1), 56-71. /wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5yamauchi-041121.pdf
  • Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Lau, L., Little, M., Conchada, M., Sobrevi帽as, A., & Tiongco, M. (2022). Limits to transformational potential: Analysing entitlement and agency within a conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines. Social Policy and Society. Cambridge University Press.
  • Okely, A. D., Reilly, J. J., Tremblay, M. S., Kariippanon, K. E., Draper, C. E., El Hamdouchi, A., … & Tiongco, M. (2021). A cross-sectional examination of 24-hour movement behaviours among 3-4 year-old children in urban and rural settings in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: The SUNRISE study protocol. BMJ Open, 11(e049267).
  • Yamauchi, F., & Tiongco, M. (2021). Tracking of school-to-work transition among the youth in the Philippines. 开元真人 Business and Economics Review, 30(2), 61-79. /wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5yamauchi-041121.pdf
  • Conchada, M. I. P., Sy, D. H., Tiongco, M., & Paloyo, A. R. (2019). Recent trends in the gender gap in the labor market in the Philippines. Philippine Review of Economics, 56(1&2), 173-186.
  • De Groote, H., Narrod, C., Kimenju, S., Bett, C., Scott, R., Tiongco, M., & Gitonga, Z. (2016). Measuring rural consumers鈥� willingness to pay for quality labels using experimental auctions: The case of aflatoxin-free maize in Kenya. Agricultural Economics, 47(1), 33-45.
  • Yamauchi, F., & Tiongco, M. (2013). Why women are progressive in education? Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines. Economics of Education Review, 32, 196-206.
  • Delgado, C., Minot, N., & Tiongco, M. (2005). Evidence and implications of non-tradability of food staples in Tanzania, 1983-1998. Journal of Development Studies, 41(3), 376-393.
  • Tiongco, M., & Dawe, D. (2002). Long-term evolution of productivity in a sample of Philippine rice farms: Implications for sustainability and future research. World Development, 30(5), 891-898.

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