José Antonio Mendoza Sánchez

José Antonio Mendoza Sánchez

Quantitative Researcher — Choice Modeling & Experimental Design

Quantitative researcher specializing in consumer preference measurement, experimental design, and discrete choice modeling. Currently a Senior Quant Designer at La Victoria Lab (Intercorp Group), where I lead quantitative research for one of Latin America's largest consumer-facing conglomerates across banking, insurance, retail, and education. I hold a Master's in Economics from PUCP, with fieldwork experience across three continents and a growing interest in how AI transforms preference elicitation and marketing measurement.

Research interests: Consumer preference measurement and choice modeling, AI-driven methods for survey design and preference elicitation, experimental design for product and service evaluation, and the application of quantitative marketing methods in emerging markets.

La Victoria Lab COSA PUCP
Conjoint Analysis Discrete Choice Experiments Experimental Design Quantitative Marketing Financial Inclusion Applied Microeconometrics Survey Methodology AI-Driven Research Tools

Experience

Research, Industry & Consulting

2023 – Present

Senior Quant Designer

La Victoria Lab (Intercorp Group)
Lima, Peru

Lead quantitative research within an innovation lab that serves Intercorp's business units (banking, insurance, retail, education). Design and run surveys and experiments to inform product and service decisions. Participate in design thinking processes from discovery through prototyping, contributing the data and evidence layer to multidisciplinary teams.

2021 – Present

Associate Researcher

Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)
Philadelphia, USA (Remote + Fieldwork)

Lead data analyst for multi-country agricultural sustainability surveys using SurveyCTO and KoBoToolbox.

  • Designed cost-of-production surveys in Rwanda and Mexico
  • Led in-person enumerator training in Kigali (Rwanda) and Hawassa (Ethiopia)
  • Managed EUDR deforestation compliance surveys for coffee in Honduras, Burundi, and Ethiopia
  • Coordinated survey operations across Malawi, India, Sudan, and Uganda
2020 – 2024

Researcher

Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru

Research assistant to Carolina Trivelli. Co-authored book on tax policy reform in Peru. Conducted research on financial inclusion gender gaps, migrant labor markets (Peru, Chile, Paraguay), and public procurement integrity using vignette experimental designs (USAID-funded).

Apr 2022 – Dec 2023

Researcher

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)
Lima, Peru

Developed a composite leading indicator system for Peru's economy. Proposed hedonic price index methodologies. Served as technical evaluator for INEI's competitive research program.

Consulting

2024

Consultant

USAID

Research on public procurement integrity using experimental vignette designs in Peruvian regional governments.

2023 – 2025

Consultant

Oxfam Peru

Co-authored report on women, energy transition, and health costs from heavy metal exposure in Peru.

2020 – 2023

Consultant

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Research projects on COVID-19 impacts, including the study on pandemic dynamics and intimate partner violence (published in Review of Development Economics).

2024

Consultant

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Evaluated the university's student recruitment system and contributed to internal institutional research projects.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, books, working papers, under review & work in progress

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Beyond the Grid: Navigating Water Supply and Sanitation Service Ecosystems in Informal Settlements

Casas, A., Hutchings, P., Bell, A. R., Kupiec-Teahan, B., Lewis, A. R., Mendoza Sánchez, J., et al.
PLOS ONE, 21(3), e0342657
2026

Realities of using self-administered smartphone surveys to solve sustainability challenges

Lewis, A. R., Willcock, S., Casas, A., Kupiec-Teahan, B., Mendoza Sánchez, J., et al.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio), 12, 1134
2025

Comparative sanitation data from high-frequency phone surveys across 3 countries

Lewis, A., Bell, A., Casas, A., Kupiec-Teahan, B., Mendoza Sánchez, J., et al.
Data in Brief, Vol. 55
2024

Violence in pandemic times: The dynamic relationship between COVID-19 and intimate partner violence

Hernández, W., Cozzubo, A., Aguilar, J., Agüero, J. and Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Review of Development Economics, Vol. 28(2), pp. 432–461
2024

Technological Infrastructure and Data Access in Police Districts: An Evaluation of the ICTs Use Against Crime in Lima, Perú

Mendoza Sánchez, J. and Aguilar, D.
Law, State and Telecommunications Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 63–78
2019

Books

Reformas en los márgenes: Política tributaria, intereses atomizados y debilidad institucional en el Perú

Morel, J., Trivelli, C., Vásquez, Y. and Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos · ISBN 978-612-326-247-1
2023

Reports & Working Papers

Mujeres en tiempos de transición energética: Aproximación a los costos de salud de la exposición a metales pesados y metaloides y del trabajo de cuidados

Navarro, C., Sánchez, C. and Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Oxfam Perú
2025

Evaluación de la integridad en las contrataciones públicas: un análisis experimental basado en viñetas en gobiernos regionales del Perú

Mendoza Sánchez, J., Morel, J. and Badillo, M.
Working Paper, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
2024

English version — Evaluating Integrity in Public Procurement: A Vignette-Based Experimental Analysis in Peruvian Regional Governments — submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on work and employment outcomes for internal and international migrants in Latin America

Vásquez, T., Morel, J., Mendoza Sánchez, J., Benitez, B. and Ropert, T.
Chapter 4 in Global State of the SDGs: Report 2023, Southern Voice
2023

The Impact of COVID-19 on Work and Employment among Internal and International Migrant Workers in Peru

Vásquez, T., Morel, J. and Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Southern Voices Occasional Paper Series Nº 82
2023

Un Indicador Líder Compuesto para la Economía Peruana

Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)
2022

Inclusión Financiera en el 2020: Persistentes Brechas de Género

Trivelli, C. and Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Working Paper, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
2021

Poder y Tributación en el Perú: Un Balance Bibliográfico

Morel, J., Trivelli, C., Vásquez, Y. and Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Working Paper, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
2020

Master's Thesis

Agentes Bancarios e Inclusión Financiera: Una evaluación de la expansión de los agentes en la dinámica de remesas en el Perú usando un modelo de diferencias en diferencias en múltiples periodos

Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Master's Thesis, PUCP
2024

Short version — Banking Agents and Private Remittances in Rural Peru — submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

Under Review

Fiscal Transfers and Local Financial Intermediation: Evidence from Mining Revenues in Peru

Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Under review

Financial Access and the Local Resource Curse: Evidence from Mining Transfers in Peru

Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Under review

The Last Mile of Financial Inclusion: Offices, Agents, and the Districts Left Behind in Peru

Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Under review

Work in Progress

Inequality of Opportunity in Territorial Financial Access: Evidence from Peru

Mendoza Sánchez, J.
Submitted to ECINEQ-LAC 2026 (Montevideo) · Working Paper ↓

Teaching

Lecturer, thesis advisor & teaching assistant at top Peruvian universities

2024 – Present

Lecturer

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Current courses (Economics Department):

  • History of Economic Thought
  • Research Seminar for Economists
  • Undergraduate Thesis Advisor

Previous courses:

  • Seminar on Qualitative Research Methods
  • Computer Lab: Database Management
  • Programming Lab: R and Python
  • Econometrics Lab: EViews
2024

Lecturer

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM)

Applied Statistics for Social Sciences

2016 – 2025

Teaching Assistant

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Quantitative Methods, Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

2023 – 2024

Teaching Assistant

Q Lab PUCP — Laboratory of AI and Computational Methods in Social Sciences

Sampling and Parallelization

Skills

Experimental & Choice Methods

  • Conjoint Analysis (CBC, ACBC, MaxDiff)
  • Discrete Choice Experiments
  • Vignette Experiments

Statistical & Data Analysis

  • Stata
  • R / Shiny Apps
  • Python / Streamlit

Survey & Fieldwork

  • SurveyCTO
  • KoBoToolbox
  • Enumerator Training
  • Data Quality Assurance

AI & Automation

  • N8N + LLM Integration
  • Claude / ChatGPT
  • Dashboards & Apps
  • Data Collection Chatbots

Writing & Communication

  • LaTeX
  • Microsoft Office
  • Spanish (Native)
  • English (Advanced)
  • Portuguese (Basic)

Fieldwork

Survey design, enumerator training, and data collection across three continents

Enumerator training in Kigali, Rwanda
Enumerator training — Kigali, Rwanda
Survey team training in Rwanda
Survey team workshop — Rwanda
Enumerator training in Hawassa, Ethiopia
Enumerator training — Hawassa, Ethiopia
Coffee ceremony during fieldwork in Ethiopia
Coffee ceremony during fieldwork — Ethiopia
Coffee farm visit in Rwanda
Coffee farm — Rwanda
Coffee field in Rwanda
Coffee field visit — Rwanda

Beyond Work

Blyde River Canyon, South Africa
Blyde River Canyon — South Africa
Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
Kiyomizu-dera — Kyoto
Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sugarloaf Mountain — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arco de Santa Catalina, Antigua Guatemala
Arco de Santa Catalina — Antigua, Guatemala

Contact

Email
jose.mendozas@pucp.edu.pe
Location
Lima, Peru
Academic Profiles
Google Scholar · ORCID · ResearchGate
CV
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