Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

Caterina Calsamiglia

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, MOVE, Barcelona GSE
Professor

Caterina Calsamiglia earned her PhD at Yale University in 2005. Since then she's been at Universitat Autònoma de Barcleona, a research fellow of the newborn MOVE, and an affiliated professor of the Barcelona GSE. Her work focuses on studying the economic implications of social justice for public policy design. She's studied how the provision of equality of opportunity can be decentralized through a set of policies; she's worked on the efficiency and fairness of different school choice mechanisms; she's also studied the effects of implementing affirmative action in discriminated tournaments. Her work includes theoretical, empirical and experimental analysis.

Working Group

Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Additional Information

Email: caterina.calsamiglia@uab.cat
Homepage: http://pareto.uab.es/~caterina/