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Economics Department Staff

Economics at Queen Mary University of London

Marco Manacorda

Email: m.manacorda@qmul.ac.uk
Reader
On Sabbatical Semesters 2 and 3
Room number: W318
Office hours: Monday 15:00 - 17:00
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8836
Internal extension: 8836
Website: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/mmanacorda/

Marco Manacorda (Ph.D. UCL, 2000) is a labor economist with an interest in development. He is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics at Queen Mary, University of London. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, a CEPR Research Affiliate in the Public Policy and Labor Economics Programmes, and a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn), CESIFO (University of Munich) and CHILD (University of Turin).

  • Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: The Role of Demand and Supply of Skills (with C. Sánchez-Páramo and N. Schady), forthcoming, Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
  • Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles, (with S. Berlinski and S. Galiani), Journal of Public Economics, 92 (5), p.1416-1440, June 2008.
  • Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members, Evidence from 1920 America, American Economic Review, December 2006, 96(5) 1788-1800.
  • Why Do Most Italian Youths Live With Their Parents?, Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure, (with E. Moretti), Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (4), 2006, 800-829.
  • Can the Scala Mobile Explain the Fall and Rise of Earnings Inequality in Italy? A Semiparametric Analysis, 1977-1993, Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 22 (3), 2004, 585-613.
  • Shifts in the Demand and Supply of Skills. A single index model with a continuous distribution of skills, (with A. Manning), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 69, 2007, 635-666.
  • Regional Mismatch and Unemployment. Theory and Evidence from Italy, 1977-1998, (with B. Petrongolo), Journal of Population Economics, 19 (1), 2006, 137?162.