CEP | People | Christiane Szerman

Biography

Dr Christiane Szerman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2023.

Current areas of research include:

What are the distributional consequences of labor market policies for disadvantaged workers?
How is the interaction between disability, work, and welfare?
What are the long-run effects of expansive social policies?

Publications

CEP discussion papers

Blindly discriminating: the GI Bill and racial inequality

The World War II GI Bill was the largest education subsidy in US history and a cornerstone of the post-war US transition to a knowledge economy. Although formally race-blind, the program's decentralized administration le... Read more...

Lukas Althoff and Christiane Szerman

10 June 2026

Journal article

Firm and worker responses to extensions in paid maternity leave

This paper investigates how firms and workers respond to a voluntary government-funded program increasing the duration of paid maternity leave from four to six months in Brazil. We show that larger, higher-paying, and mo... Read more...

Cecilia Machado, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Christiane Szerman

01 January 2025