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Marco Manacorda is an empirical microeconomist with an interest and expertise in the Economic Analysis of Public Policies in both low and high income countries.
Currently, he is a Professor of Economics at Queen Mary University of London, and a Research Associate at CEP, at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn), a Research Affiliate in the Labor Economics and Public Policy groups of CEPR (London), a Research Fellow of CESIFO (Munich), a Research Affiliate of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (Milan) and a Research Associate of Child (Turin). Since 2012 he is also a Panel Member of Economic Policy.
Marco has been a recipient of the Nuffield Foundation New Development Fellowship in the Social Sciences and has been, among other things, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Associate Professor and a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University.
Marco's research has so far analyzed topics as varied as International Migration, Family Arrangements and Fertility,
Social Protection, Voting, Unemployment, Skills Mismatch, Labor Market Informality, Wage Inequality, Wage Institutions, Schooling, Child Labor and Early Child Development. He has written and researched on Latin America, Europe, the USA, and Africa. His work appears - among other outlets - in the American Economic Review, The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Labor Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of the European Economic Association, The Journal of Human Resources and The Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
Marco is a regular consultant for a number of international agencies and organizations such as ILO, the World Bank, UNICEF, the Inter-American Development Bank and has been lead research advisor for UCW, the inter-agency (ILO-UNICEF-World Bank) project on Child Labor.
With colleagues at UC Berkeley and Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo he has advised the Uruguayan government on the design and (the ongoing) evaluation of El Plan de Atencion Nacional a la Emergencia Social, the country's largest emergency poverty relief program. Marco is fluent in English and Spanish, he has a working knowledge of French and Portuguese and Italian is his mother tongue.
His research has been featured - among others - in The Guardian, The Independent, TIME Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica. He is also an occasional TV and Radio commentator, having appeared, among others, on Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC world News, BBC Radio 4, Voice of America and RAI.
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