NÚRIA RODRÍGUEZ-PLANAS

Assistant Professor

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Department of Economics and Economic History

08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)

Barcelona, Spain

web page: http://pareto.uab.es/nrodriguez/

Tel: (34) 93 581 2708, (34) 699 09 1857

EDUCATION

1993-1998 Ph.D., Economics, Boston University

1993-1996 M.A., Political Economy, Boston University

1988-1993 Llicenciatura en Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials, Universitat de Barcelona

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Since 2004 Assistant professor, UAB, Department of Economics and Economic History

NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2000 - 2004 Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. , Washington, D.C.

http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/

1998 - 1999 Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC

www.federalreserve.gov/

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Since 2009 MOVE research fellow

http://movebarcelona.eu/

Since 2009 CREMed, Research Affiliate

www.cremed.eu

Since 2008 INSIDE-Spain, Member

http://www.inside.org.es/en/

Since 2007 Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Affiliated Professor

http://www.barcelonagse.eu/

Since 2007 Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), Research Affiliate

http://www.fedea.es/

Since 2004 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Research Fellow

http://www.iza.org/

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Program and Policy Evaluation in the Labor Market

Wages and Flexible Work Arrangements

Family Economics

Immigration

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Female, born in 1970 in Barcelona, Spain. Citizen of Spain, France, and the United States of America.

One daughter (born in 2006), one son (born in 2008), and one step-son (born in 1996).

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

1. “Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence

from a Randomized Trial in the U.S.”

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming).

Press coverage in Nada es Gratis: See comment by Antonio Cabrales, 10^th May, 2010.

2. “Mentoring, Educational Services, and Financial Incentives: What Do We Know about Them?”

Accepted pending minor revisions: Evaluation and Program Planning

3. “Determinants of Immigrant’s Cash-Welfare Benefit Intake in Spain.”

International Journal of Manpower (forthcoming). Special issue on “Migration, the Welfare

State, and European Labor Markets”.

4. Moroccans’ Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration” with Raquel Vegas. Middle East Development Journal, vol. 3, issue 2: 119-139, 2011.

5. “The Part-Time Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

Labour Economics, Volume 18, 591–606, 2011. Available on line January 14^th, 2011.

Press coverage: El Economista, November 7th, 2009; and La Vanguardia, April 23^rd, 2010.

6. “Channels through which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs

Work.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 72, No. 4, 458-485, 2010.

Press coverage: UAB Divulga, July 2011.

7. “Evaluating Active Labor Markets in Romania” with Jacob Benus.

Empirical Economics, Volume 38, Issue 1, 65-84, 2010.

8. “A Signaling Model of Temporary Layoff.”

Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 61, No. 3, 566-585, 2009.

Press coverage: UAB Divulga, December 2009.

ACADEMIC WORKING PAPERS

9. “The Motherhood Earnigns Dip in Spain” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Aitor Lacuesta.

Revise and Resubmit: Journal of Human Resources.

IZA discussion paper No. 5403, December, 2010 (most recent version: December 2010).

Press coverage: El País, December 5^th, 2010.

10. “Part-Time Status, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience” with Daniel

Fernández-Kranz and Marie Paul.

Submitted.

IZA discussion paper No. 5815, June 2011.

11. “Childcare, Maternal Employment, and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain” with

Natalia Nollenberger.

Submitted.

IZA discussion paper No. 5888, July 2011.

12. “Displacement, Signaling, and Recall Expectations.”

Submitted.

IZA discussion paper No. 1009, February 2004 (most recent version: April 2011).

13. “Occupational Assimilation After a Recent and Unprecedented Immigration Boom” with

Miguel Angel Alcobendas.

Submitted.

IZA discussion paper No. 4394, September 2009 (most recent version: December 2010).

14. “Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

Under revision. Coming soon!

IZA discussion paper No. 5709, May, 2011.

15. “Mentoring, Education, and Economic Incentives. Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors

from a Randomized Trial.”

IZA discussion paper No. 4968, May 2010.

16. “Distributional Effects of the Minimum Wage Increase: Evidence from California.”

Third chapter of the Ph.D. dissertation, July 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS

1. “Who Pays the Cost of Mandated Benefits?” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz. This paper analyzes the wage effects of the Spanish 1999 law that granted all workers with children less than 7 years the right to work PT and that increased their employment protection. Using longitudinal data the paper examines whether employers are able to pass along some of the costs of this mandated benefit to workers through the form of lower wages. More specifically, we analyze whether there was more parity in wages paid across PT/FT before the reform. Findings that the PT/FT hourly wage differential grew after the law provides unique evidence of the degree to which this wage gap partly reflect higher costs of hiring these workers. We find evidence that the law increased this PT/FT wage differential among permanent workers—but not workers with fixed-term contracts, suggesting that the higher costs of hiring PT workers in the primary labor market are passed along to workers through lower wages. Our results also support a large effect of the law on the likelihood of transitioning from FT to PT work for mothers of children under seven only if the woman was working under a permanent contract. We expect to have a distributing draft of the paper by the fall.

2. “Universal Childcare and Children’s Cognitive Development: A Natural Experiment from

Spain” with Christine Felfe and Natalia Nollenberger. Exploiting a law that granted universal public childcare to all three-year olds in Spain in the early 1990s, this paper estimates the effects of universal preschool on the cognitive development of children thirteen years later, when they are 16 years old. Intention-to-treat estimates are calculated using data from 2000 through 2009 PISA and differences-in-differences-in-differences approach. As the law had two components: a curriculum change and the universalization of childcare for three-year olds, our aim is to disentangle the extent to which each of these two components affected children’s long-term cognitive development. For this purpose, we exploit the fact that the curriculum change was implemented immediately in 1992 across all states, but the universalization of childcare was staggered across time and regions. Currently, we have prepared the dataset and we have begun with the data analysis. Preliminary findings show that universal childcare for three-year olds was beneficial for children’s cognitive development only in those states in which enrollment rates for three-year olds were below the median prior to the law change.

3. “Fixed-term Contracts and Wages” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Marie Paul. We aim at exploiting the recently available rich longitudinal dataset from Social Security records to analyze the effects of working under a fixed-term contract in Spain. Our objective is to write at least two papers addressing several of the methodological concerns in this literature, such as workers’ and firms’ unobserved heterogeneity, on the one hand, and endogeneity of the employment decision and the contract type, and endogeneity of experience under different contract types, on the other. We have begun with preliminary data analysis with promising findings.

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Books and Chapters

1. “¿Por Qué No es Posible Flexibilizar el Mercado Laboral Español a Través del Contrato a

Tiempo Parcial?” with Daniel Fernandéz-Kranz. eBook: Propuesta para la reactivación laboral en España (Fundación Fedea). January 14th, 2010.

2. “El Contrato a Tiempo Parcial en España” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

Papeles de Economía Número 124, 2010.

Press coverage: Expansión, July 23rd, 2010.

3. “Metodología para el Diseño e Implementación de Estudios de Evaluación de Políticas

Sociales.” Chapter 3 in Metodología para el Diseño e Implementación de Estudios de

Evaluación de Políticas Públicas, Editorial Bosch, 2009.

4. “Diseño de la Evaluación de la Efectividad de las Políticas Activas de Ocupación en

Rumania.” Chapter 4 in Metodología para el Diseño e Implementación de

Estudios de Evaluación de Políticas Públicas, Editorial Bosch, 2009.

5. Does Inclusion Pay? Evaluating Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Active Social Policy and

Active Labor Market Policy on Inclusion. Chapter on Spain. Ministry of Labor of Finland, November 2006.

6. Pressupostos de Gènere. Eines 3. Editor: Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Català de la

Dona, Barcelona, February 2006.

7. “Workers’ Recall Expectations and their Implications for Worker Profiling.”

Workforce Security Research Conference Paper Proceedings, 2001.

Popular Press and Media

Más Guardiolas

La Vanguardia, Octubre 6th, 2011

Las Políticas Activas de Ocupación a Estudio

UAB Divulga, July 2011.

¿Nixon o Penélope?

La Vanguardia, November 5^th, 2010.

“Expats” I Nous Emigrants

Valor Afegit, Canal 33, October 27^th, 2010.

                   http://www.tv3.cat/videos/3177230/Expats-i-nous-emigrants

Expatriats per la Crisi

The news on TV3, June 14th, 2010.

http://www.tv3.cat/videos/2964850/Expatriats-per-la-crisi

España aún Es Diferente

La Vanguardia, April 23^rd, 2010 – Co-authored with Daniel Fernandéz-Kranz.

Canvi de Rumb

Magazine Presència, weekend magazine of the following newspapers: El Punt, El 9 Nou,

Diari d’Andorra i Diari de Balears. February 14th, 2010 – Author: Anna Aguilar.

Reforma Laboral y Cambio de Modelo

La Vanguardia, February 11th , 2010

¿Flexibilizar el Mercado Laboral con el Contrato a Tiempo Parcial?

El Economista, November 7th, 2009 – Co-authored with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

El Paro como Señal Positiva de Productividad

UAB Divulga, December 2009

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

       2010-2013      Research grant, Spanish Department of Science and Innovation.  “Essays in Computational Economics”, MICINN ECO2009-11857, Michael Creel (Principal Investigator).  Total amount: 69,000.00 €

       2010-2011      Research grant, CREMed.  “Moroccans’ Assimilation Process in Spain: Family-

                          Based versus Labor-Based Migration”.  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Principal Investigator), and Raquel Vegas (researcher).  Total amount: 12,000.00 €

       2009-2014      Research grant, Dirección General de Investigación, Generalitat de Catalunya.  “Quantitative Economic Research Group”,  SGR 200957, Michael Creel (Principal Investigator).  Total amount: 36,800.00 €

2008                Research grant, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.  “Brain Gain in Catalonia”.  Salvador Barberà (Principal Investigator).  Total amount: 30,000.00 €

       2007-2009      Research grant, Spanish Department of Education and Science.  “Essays in Computational Economics”, SEJ2006/00712ECO, Ferran Sancho (Principal Investigator).  Total amount: 87,120.00 €

2005-2006      Research grant, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities.  “Evaluating Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Active Social Policy and Active Labor Market Policy on Inclusion”, VS/2005/0687, Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Co-Principal Investigator with Hannu Kauppi from Department of Labor, Finland, and Jochen Kluve from RWI-Essen, Germany). Total amount: 226,979.00 €

       2005-2006      Research Grant, Institute of Statistics of Andalucía.  “Designing and Adapting Samples and Data Bases for Microeconomic Evaluation of Public Policy”, 30.04.012707, Jose Ignacio Pérez (Principal Investigator). Total amount: 140,160.00 €

       1997-1998      Brookings Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies, recipient of Leo Model Fellowship

       1993–1997      Bank of Spain.  Recipient of a fellowship to study the Ph.D. in Boston University

WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS ORGANIZATION

2006 Workshop on Practices of Active Labor Market Policy in Spain

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

2003 Session on Measuring Peer Effects

American Economic Association at the ASSA meeting in Washington D.C.

2001 Session on Food Stamps

41^st Annual Conference of the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS), Baltimore

2001 Session on Reemployment Bonus

American Economic Association at the ASSA meeting in New Orleans

INVITED SEMINARS (includes forthcoming invited seminars)

2011 University of Oxford

Barcelona GSE

IZA, Bonn

Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid

Universtitat d’Alacant

2010 Interamerican Development Bank, Washington DC

2009 CEMFI, Madrid

Banco de España, Madrid

University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland

FEDEA, Madrid

Universidad del País Basc, Bilbao

Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona

2008 Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus

2005 CEMFI, Madrid

2005 IZA, Bonn

1998 Rochester University, Kellog Business School (Northwestern University), McGill University, Case Western Reserve University, Institut d’Anàlisis Econòmic-CSIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universidad de Alicante, CEMFI, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Research and Statistics Division)

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (includes forthcoming invited presentations)

             2011            European Economics Association Conference (EEA), Oslo

                               Fifth INSIDE Workshop, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmic, CSIC, Barcelona

Second Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process (CREMed and European Institute), Barcelona

                               Flexibilty in the Labor Market: Boon or Bane?  Nuremberg

                               IZA Workshop: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Bonn

2010           35^th Symposium of Economic Analysis, Madrid

                               MOVE Workshop on Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking,

                     Barcelona

                               EEA Conference, Glasgow

First Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process (CREMed and European Institute), Barcelona

                               Fourth INSIDE Workshop, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmic, CSIC, Barcelona

                               EALE/SOLE Conference, London

                               ZEW Workshop on Measurement Error, Mannheim

                COSME/FEDEA Annual Workshop on Gender Economics, Madrid

                               ZEW Workshop on Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets, Mannheim

                               Second Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behavior, Atlanta (Georgia)

                               ZEW Workshop on Evaluation of Policies Fighting Social Exclusion, Mannheim

2009                      34^th Symposium of Economic Analysis, Universitat de Valencia

                        Second Workshop on Gender Economics, Universidad de Granada

                        First COSME Workshop, Banco de España, Madrid

                        Third INSIDE Workshop, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmic, CSIC, Barcelona

                        ESPE Conference, Seville

                        Workshop on Immigration, IZA, Bonn

Workshop on Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries, IZA-World

Bank, Bonn

2008            Workshop on New Aspects of Active Labour Market Policies, Aarhus, Denmark

                        XXI Symposium Moneda y Crédita on Economic Policy Evaluation, Madrid

                        INFER workshop on Globalization, Integration, and Transition, Cluj-Napoca,

                        Romania

                               EALE Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

            2007           4rt Seminari d’Avaluació Educativa, Barcelona

                               Third Annual IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, Bonn

                               European Economic Association Meetings, Budapest

            2006           Ministry of Labor, Finland, Helsinki

                               EALE Conference, Prague

            2005           Workshop on Policy Evaluation, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla

                               The Empirical Evaluation of Labour Market Programes, Nuremberg

14^ème Ecole de Printemps d’Economie International et Economie Industrielle, Aix-en-Provence

                               Jamboree meetings, Brussels

            2004           Conference of the Applied Econometrics Association on “Econometrics of Labor Demand”, Mons

            2003           Conference on Microeconomic Analyses of Labor Reallocation, organized by the Upjohn Institute, the William Davidson Institute, and IZA, Michigan

                               American Economic Association at the ASSA meeting in Washington D.C.

            2002           U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.

            2001           Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Washington D.C.

                               41^st Annual Conference of the National Association for Welfare Research and

                               Statistics (NAWRS), Baltimore

                               First American Workforce Research Conference, Washington D.C.

                               American Economic Association at the ASSA meeting in New Orleans

                               The Society of Government Economists at the ASSA meeting in New Orleans

            2000           22^nd annual APPAM research conference, Seattle

                               Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association, Rio de Janeiro

            1999           American Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York

            1998           23^rd Symposium of Economic Analysis, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

                               William and Mary College, Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy

                               The Joint Committee on Business and Financial Analysis, San Antonio

                               The Midwest Economic Annual Meetings, Chicago

            1996           21^st Symposium of Economic Analysis, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

REFEREE SERVICE

Journal of Labor Economics, Demography, Labour Economics, Empirical Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Evaluation and Program Planning, Review of Economics of the Household, International Journal of Manpower, The European Journal of Health Economics, Revista de Economía Aplicada, SERIEs, Investigaciones Económicas, Spanish National Agency for Evaluation

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate: Labor Economics (Ph.D. UAB: 2004-2005); Gender Budgeting (Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya, Diputació de Barcelona, and Universitat de Barcelona: 2005, 2007, and 2010)

Undergraduate: Microeconomics (UAB: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011)

THESIS COMMITTEE

Ainhoa Aparicio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.  Currently economist at Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino.  Defense date: June 2010

Dörte Dömeland, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.  Currently economist at the World Bank.  Defense date: July 2007

María Emilia García Appendini, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Currently assistant professor at Bocconi University. Defense date: September 2007

THESIS SUPERVISOR

Natalia Nollenberger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Department of Applied Economics (expected graduation: September 2012)

LANGUAGES

Perfectly fluent in French (Baccalauréat Français), English, Spanish, and Catalan (Certificat nivell C)