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Staff Biography

[Photo: Martina VIARENGO] Dr Martina VIARENGO
Research Officer - Education and Skills
Tel:  020 7955 7445
Email: m.g.viarengo@lse.ac.uk
R436A  Zone 10
Expertise: Martina Viarengo’s research interests lie in the areas of Comparative Education Policy, economic value of Education and Human Capital adjustment to the technological change. She also works in the areas of Labour Markets, Inequality and Migration.

Education:

  • 2007 Ph.D, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • 2003 MS.c., Northwestern University
  • 2002 B.A., University of Turin

Awards:

  • 2005-2007 LSE Graduate Research Students Scholarship
  • 2002-2003 Fellowship of the Fondazione Einaudi offered by Compagnia di San Paolo
  • 2002-2003 Graduate Scholarship of Northwestern University

Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions:

  • Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government - Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Royal Society of Arts, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - Fellow
  • Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE-IFS-IOE - Associate

Selected Publications:

  • Murtin F. and M. Viarengo (2009), “The Expansion and Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000”, forthcoming in Economica; CEE Discussion Paper 65; Paris School of Economics, Ecole Normale Superieure Working Paper No. 2007-18

  • Murtin F. and M. Viarengo (2009), “American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations, 1870-1930”, forthcoming in Cliometrica; IZA Discussion Paper No. 3964

  • Viarengo M. (2008), “The Skills needed for Economic Growth”, in Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing London, UK: Government Office for Science (project led by Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor to H. M. Government, and sponsored by Minister Bill Rammell, findings quoted in Nature,vol.45, No.23, October 2008, pp.1057-1060)

CEP Publications:

  • Does Money Matter for Schools?
    Helena Holmlund, Sandra McNally, Martina Viarengo, January 2009
    Paper No' CEEDP0105: Read Abstract | Full paper (pdf)

  • The Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000
    Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo, November 2008
    Paper No' CEEDP0095: Read Abstract | Full paper (pdf)

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