Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Michela TINCANI (UCL)

Michela Tincani is Associate Professor at University College London (UCL). She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an Affiliate at Bocconi’s Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies (LEAP), and at UCL’s Stone Centre, Policy Lab, and Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics (CTaLE), a Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).  She often serves as a consultant to policymakers and practitioners.

She is a labour economist, interested in human capital. Topics of her work include college access, non-financial barriers to education, and peer effects. Her research combines experimental, quasi-experimental, and structural econometric methods to evaluate public policies and their optimal design. 

Michela Tincani's website

She will present a paper, joint with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino, at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

How Far Can Inclusion Go? The Long-Term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions (read abstract, PDF 42.53 MB)

The next Applied Microeconomics Seminar will take place on June 12th, speaker to be confirmed.