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Petra Persson
Assistant Professor of Economics
BioPetra Persson is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Department of Economics, where she teaches in the PhD program. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and at the Stanford Center for International Development, and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her research agenda centers on social insurance and family structure, and explores the interaction between government-provided insurance and intra-family insurance.
Petra Persson was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research from 2013 to 2014, and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program from 2012 to 2013. She earned her PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2013, her MSc in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics in 2006, and her BA in Political Science and Mathematics from Stockholm University in 2005. -
Luigi Pistaferri
Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioLuigi Pistaferri is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a research fellow of NBER, CEPR and IZA, the "Ralph Landau" Senior Fellow at SIEPR, and one of the co-editors of the American Economic Review. His papers are on the intersection between labor economics and macroeconomics. Pistaferri holds a PhD in Economics from University College, London, and a Doctorate in Economic Sciences from IUN in Naples (Italy), where he was born in 1968. Pistaferri joined Stanford University in 1999 after finishing his PhD and has been a member of the faculty ever since, with the exception of one year sabbatical spent at EIEF in Rome.
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Beatriz Pousada
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research leverages natural experiments to evaluate labor market policies to provide causal evidence that could help policymakers decide on policies to increase workers' welfare. I currently have two main research agendas. The first one focuses on policies aimed at low-wage workers. For instance, my job market paper estimates the impact of the minimum wage on outsourced cleaning workers. My second research agenda focuses on the impact of immigration policy on the host country’s labor market.
