Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars

Elira Kuka, Southern Methodist University - (June 2018 - December 2018) Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Southern Methodist University. Also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Research Affiliate at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics.

Luigi Minale - Carlos III Madrid (August 2018 - November 2018) Assistant Professor of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) - UCL. Affiliated with the IZA Institute of Labor Economics (Research Affiliate) and to the Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano in Milan.




Matthias Giesecke, IZA (September 2018-November 2018) Matthias Giesecke is a researcher in the division “labor markets, education and population” at RWI, Germany. He studied economics at the Free University Berlin and received his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2015. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded a three-year scholarship of the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics.




Carlos Corseuil, The World Bank (January 2019-February 2019) His research is focused on how firms adjust their labor force in response to shocks such as trade or technological shocks, minimum wage, or policies devoted to foster performance such as subsidized credit or tax simplification.




Valentina Paredes, University of Chile (March 2019) Valentina is a Commercial Engineer and Master in Economics from the University of Chile, and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her areas of specialization are labor economics, with emphasis on the economics of education, and gender economics. Her research areas include the study of gender gaps in education, and the effect of teachers on student performance.

Visiting Student Researchers

2018-2019

Juuso Makinen, Aalto University School of Business (August 2018 - May 2019) Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen, University of Stavanger (January 2019 - December 2019) Fabrizio Colella, University of Lausanne (January 2019 - July 2019)

2018-2019

Annabelle Doerr, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Ciprian Domnisoru, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Steeve Marchand, Université Laval in Quebec City (Canada) Alice Kügler, University College London (March 2019 - April 2019)