Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars

Visiting Faculty

	Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (January 2014 - December 2014) Rafael Lalive is a member of the National Center of Competence in Research LIVES and coordinate activities in the Individual Project 4. He also currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association, Eonomics e-journal, and the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. He is a member of the executive committee of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) and organize their annual congress for doctoral students YSEM. [Read more]
	Albrecht Glitz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain (August 2013 - November 2013)
	Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, New York (September 2013 - December 2013) Eric Verhoogen is an economist working at the intersection of the areas of development economics, international trade, and labor economics. His main research focus has been on understanding the links between international integration and wage inequality in developing countries, particularly Mexico. [Read More]
	Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University, New Jersey (September 2013 - May 2014) Orley Ashenfelter's areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. He has been the director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, and director of the Office of Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Labor, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Benjamin Meeker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. [Read More]
	Tomas Rau Binder, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (August 2013 - December 2013)

Visiting Research Scholars

	Sabrina Di Addario, Bank of Italy (September 2013 - November 2013) Sabrina Di Addario is an economist at the Bank of Italy in Rome. Her research interests include labor economics, urbanization, and innovation. She is currently working on two projects using a dataset matching Italian employer-employee data to patent applications and grants from the European Patent Office. Office. The first paper is on Inventors' Returns to Patents, the second one on Inventors' Knowledge Flows.
	Sachiko Kazekami, Chukyo University, Japan (April 2014 - April 2015)
	Sibel Cengiz, Mugla University, Turkey (September 2013 - December 2013) Sibel Cengiz is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Mugla Sitki Kocman University in Mugla, Turkey. Her research interests focus on developments of the Labor Force Participation Rate in Turkey during instances of economic shocks. She is sponsored by the Center for Labor Economics and will be at IRLE from October 2013 to at the end of December 2013.
	Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland (September 2013 - May 2014) Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz is an Assistant Professor at Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. Her research interests embrace theory of economic convergence, labor economics and economics of education. Currently, she is working on her project for Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education on the efficiency of higher education institutions. Additionally she conducts research on wage convergence in the EU and gender wage inequalities. [Read More]

Visiting Student Researchers

	Fredrik Savje, Uppsala University, Sweden (September 2013 - December 2013) Fredrik is a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests is mainly in applied labor economics, development economics and microeconometrics. Current projects include a study of the effects of micronutrients on education in Tanzania and a study of the validity of hypothesis tests within the Synthetic Control Method.
	Michele Weynandt, University of Mannheim, Germany (September 2013 - July 2014) Michèle was born in Dudelange (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) in 1986. In 2005 she started studying business administration at the University of Mannheim. In 2007 she transferred to the Miami University (Ohio) where she graduated in 2009 (magna cum laude) with a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics and a minor in Mathematics. [Read More]
	Kathrin Degen, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (January 2014 - June 2014) Kathrin is a PhD candidate at the department of economics at University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests are in the fields of Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Environmental Economics and Field Experiments. The focus of her job market paper is on the effects of unemployment insurance policy changes and the role of reservation wages for the duration of unemployment.
	Arna Vardardottir, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden (September 2013 - June 2014) Arna is visiting UC Berkeley for her second year and she is currently on the job market. Her research interests include labor economics, family economics, household finance, education, demography, gender identity and applied microeconometrics. Her job market paper focuses on household financial decision making and how labor demand shocks affect the determination of these decisions. [Read More]
	Louis-Phillippe Beland, University of Montreal, Canada (September 2013 - November 2013) Louis-Philippe is visiting the CLE in 2013 (spring and fall semesters). He is a Ph.D. student at the University of Montreal. His research interests are mainly in labor economics and public policy. His papers includes a study of the impact of political parties on labor market outcomes, a study of the effect of High School shootings on schools and student performance and a paper on the impact of mobile phones at school on student performance.

Post-Doctoral Scholars

Ola Vestad, University of Oslo, Norway (January 2014 - June 2014) Ola Lotherington Vestad received his Ph.D. from the University of Oslo in October 2012. Prior to this, he obtained his Master’s degree in Economic Theory and Econometrics at the Toulouse School of Economics. Vestad is currently employed as a Researcher at Statistics Norway. He works mostly within the fields of applied labor economics and policy evaluation, with a particular emphasis on pensions and retirement behavior.