Women in Economics: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
CEPR is working in partnership with UBS to celebrate contributions of women in economics, with a series of portraits and video interviews on a dedicated website.
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The sixth economist to be featured in the series is Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics (EHESS) Ekaterina is also a Research Fellow of CEPR in our Public Policy and Development Economics programmes. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1999 and subsequently spent 10 years working as Professor at the New Economic School and as the Academic Director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research in Moscow. Her main academic interests are in political economy. |
You can find a list of all Ekaterina Zhuravskaya's CEPR Discussion Papers here, including:
- Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
- Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
- Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
- Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire
Her VoxEU.org columns, videos and podcasts are listed here and include:
- Fake news and fact checking
- Conflict, the media, and public opinion
- Serfdom and Russian economic development
The CEPR/UBS video portraits of Ekaterina, as well as those of all the other economists featured in the series, are available on our YouTube channel here
This programme shines a light on quality research and policymaking from female leaders in their field. "Women in Economics" will feature videos of prominent researchers discussing their work and insights. The content is designed to appeal to non-expert audiences as well as those with a deeper understanding of economics.
Founded on the UBS “Nobel Perspectives” concept, where, since 2015, UBS has been documenting the lives and work of Nobel Prize-winning economists, this partnership will highlight great economic minds and showcase the outstanding contributions they are making. The aspiration is to underline women’s contributions to the field of economics and inspire future generations.