Alfredo R. Paloyo is a Lecturer at the School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance of the University of Wollongong in Australia, a Research Fellow of the RWI and IZA in Germany, and a Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. His research interests broadly include issues of labor, health, development, and defense economics, with a specific emphasis on social policy evaluation. His articles have been published in the European Economic Review, Review of Development Economics, Social Science and Medicine, the Economics of Education Review, and Defence and Peace Economics, among others. In 2011, he completed his doctorate at the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics.