Women in Economics: Eliana La Ferrara
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 fifth economist to be featured in the series is Eliana La Ferrara, the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where she also directs the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). Eliana received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. She was president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) in 2016-2019 and president of the European Economic Association in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of CEPR, EUDN and IGIER, a J-PAL Affiliate and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
You can find a list of all Eliana La Ferrara's CEPR Discussion Papers here, including:
- The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV
- Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
- Who Trusts Others?
Her VoxEU.org columns, videos and podcasts are listed here and include:
- Revealing implicit stereotypes
- Violence against women: A cross-cultural analysis for Africa
- Economic and social impacts of the media
The CEPR/UBS video portraits of Eliana, 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.