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Gema Zamarro

Associate Economist

Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in economics, CEMFI (Central Bank of Spain foundation)

Expertise

Labor; education and health economics; micro econometrics; policy evaluation

Policy Areas

Educational policies, economics of aging

Recent Projects

  • Teacher quality and student performance
  • Determinants of school choice
  • Estimating returns to schooling
  • Retirement effects on health
  • Family labor supply and child care decisions

Selected Publications

"Accounting for Heterogeneous Returns in a Sequential Model for Schooling Decisions" (CentER Discussion Paper No.2006-21)

"The Choice between Public and Private schools with or without Subsidies in Spain" (work in progress with Manuel Arellano)

"Family Labor Participation and Childcare Decisions: The role of Grannies" (work in progress)

"Retirement Effects on Health in Europe" (work in progress with Norma B. Coe).

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