Marco Manacorda (Ph.D. UCL, 2000) is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics at Queen Mary, University of London and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. He is a recipient of the Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship in the Social Sciences (2002-2005). He is also 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). Over the years, he has hold short term visiting positions in a number of European and American universities as well as in the Research Department of the World Bank.

Marco's research focuses on how incentives are shaped by Public Policies, with the ultimate aim of uncovering the micro-determinants of individual behavior. His research so far has analyzed topics such as Wage Institutions, Schooling and Child Labor, Migration and Family Formation, Social Protection and Welfare, Unemployment and Wage Inequality, in both Developed and Developing countries. His work appears - among other outlets - in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.

Marco Manacorda currently advises the Uruguayan government on the evaluation of the PANES (Plan de Atencion Nacional a la Emergencia Social). His research has been featured - among others - in The Guardian, The Independent, TIME, the Daily Telegraph, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Metro. He is also an occasional TV and radio commentator.