Marco Manacorda

Awards

Nuffield Foundation New Development Fellowship in the Social Sciences 2002-05

Experience Keywords

Public policy; child labour; early child development; family formation; informality; labor markets; labour markets; migration; minimum wages.; political economy and corruption; school to work transition; schooling; social protection; wage inequality

Research Summary

Marco Manacorda is a Professor of Economics at Queen Mary University of London, and a Research Associate at CEP, at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Affiliate in the Labor Economics and Public Policy groups of CEPR (London), a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn), a Research Fellow of CESIFO (Munich) and a Research Affiliate of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (Milan). Between 2012 and 2013 he served as a Panel Member of Economic Policy.

He has been a recipient of the Nuffield Foundation New Development Fellowship in the Social Sciences and has been, among other things, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Associate Professor and a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University.

His research has been featured in The Guardian, The Independent, TIME Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica. He is also an occasional TV and Radio commentator, having appeared, among others, on Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC, Voice of America and RAI

Research Countries

Latin America, Europe, USA, Africa

Languages

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Basic]; Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Portuguese [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]