Ana C. Dammert is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. She has research and teaching interests in development economics and program evaluation, especially her research aims to understand the barriers to human capital accumulation in developing countries. Her projects focused on the effects of international policies on child labor, the role of information and communication technologies in increasing adoption of health technologies, methodological issues on measuring child labor, and the impacts of globalization on gender inequality. She has published her research in the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and World Development, among others. Her recent work is related to gender, Fair Trade, and labor markets in low income countries.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in November 2006 and became a Research Fellow in March 2009.