Andreu Arenas

Contact IPEG Information UPF Campus de la Ciutadella Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27 08005 Barcelona

Current Postdoctoral Fellow, Barcelona Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG). Position Research Empirical microeconomics: political economy, economics of education, policy evaluation. Interests

Education European University Institute, Florence, Italy Ph.D., Economics, June, 2016. Advisor: Andrea Ichino M.Res., Economics, June, 2012.

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Visiting Ph.D. Student, Economics, May-June 2015. Advisor: Manuel Bagues

University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom M.Sc., Economics, September, 2011. Awarded with Distinction.

University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Graduate Courses, Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), 2009/2010. B.A. (Llicenciatura), Economics, June, 2009.

University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Exchange via Erasmus Programme, 2007/2008.

Previous Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Universit´e Position catholique de Louvain, Belgium. 2016-2018.

Research Visits The Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, US. April 2018. Economics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. May 2017.

Publications Countercyclical School Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility (with C. Malgouyres, Institut des Politiques Publiques), Labour Economics, 2018, Vol 53, 97-111.

Sticky votes, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December 2016, Vol 132 (A), 12-25.

Work Government fragmentation and public spending: evidence from a party ban in progress Party bans, deterrence or backlash? Evidence from the Basque Country Intergenerational mobility, school inequality and social segregation (with J. Hindriks) - CORE Discussion Paper 2017/19

Teaching Lecturer - Topics in Political Economy (Advanced Masters/PhD class, UCLouvain) Spring 2017 Experience Teaching Assistant - Econometrics I (1st year PhD Programme, EUI) Fall 2013, 2014, 2015

Teaching Assistant - Causality in Microeconometrics (Advanced PhD class, EUI) Spring 2016

Stata Software Tutor, EUI 2013/2014

Lecturer - Microeconomics (1st year undergraduate, Academia ASES, Barcelona) 2008/2009

Participation in Academic Assistant - Families and Societies Research Project, Department of Social and Political Research Sciences, European University Institute. Led by Fabrizio Bernardi. 2015/2016. Projects Honors and Wicksell Prize of the European Public Choice Society, 2015. Awards Alexandre Pedr´osyoung researcher best paper award, XXII Public Economics Meetings, 2015. EUI: thesis completion scholarship, 2014. Spanish Ministry of Science: Salvador de Madariaga PhD scholarship, 2011-2013. Fundaci´onRam´onAreces: scholarship for postgraduate studies abroad, 2010/2011. University of Barcelona and IEB: APIF research scholarship, 2009/2010.

Departmental Co-organizer, Brown Bag Seminar, CORE, Universit´ecatholique de Louvain, 2016/2017 Service Co-organizer, Microeconometrics Working Group, Economics Department, EUI, 2013/2014. Researchers’ Representative, Economics Department, EUI, 2013/2014, 2014/2015. Refereeing: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, American Journal of Political Science.

Presentations in Workshop on New developments in intergenerational mobility, Erasmus School of Economics, Workshops and Rotterdam (2018); 15th Belgian Day for Labour Economists (2018); NYU Graduate Political Conferences Economy Seminar (2018); Simposio de la Asociaci´onEspa˜nolade Econom´ıa,Barcelona (2017); Workshop on the Origins and Consequences of Group Identities, University of Zurich (2017); 3rd Lille Workshop on Political Economy (2017); Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists, St. Gallen (2017); University of the Basque Country - Bilbonomics Semi- nar (2017); 1st Catalan Economic Society Conference (2017); EUI Microeconometrics Working Group (2017); 2nd Belgian-Japanese Workshop in Public Finance (2017); LEER Workshop in Education Economics, KU Leuven (2017); IRES Macro Lunch Seminar (2017); CORE Brown Bag Seminar (2016); Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy (2016); European Political Sci- ence Association Meetings, Brussels (2016); EUI Workshop on Media Effects (2016); Universit`a Cattolica di Milano (2016); Universitat de Girona (2016); Institut d’Economia de Barcelona - IEB (2016); Simposio de la Asociaci´onEspa˜nolade Econom´ıa,Girona (2015); American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco (2015); Applied Economics Workshop, Petralia Sot- tana (2015); HECER Lunch Seminar, Helsinki (2015); European Public Choice Society Meetings, Groningen (2015); Mannheim ZEW Public Finance Conference (2015); Encuentros de Econom´ıa P´ublica,Santander (2015); Italian Doctoral Workshop in Empirical Economics, CCA, Torino (2014); EUI Alumni Conference (2014); EUI Microeconometrics Working Group (2014).

Research Data collection and database construction for the project “How should the Government React Assistantships to Natural Disasters” by Evi Pappa (EUI) and Saverio Simonelli (University of Naples), 2015.

Computer Statistical packages: Stata, Mata, Matlab, E-views. Literacy Typesetting packages: LATEX

Language English: Fluent. IELTS (University of Cambridge), band score: 8/9 (C2 level), 2009. Literacy Spanish, Catalan: Native speaker. Italian: Fluent. PLIDA (University of Rome-La Sapienza), band score: 119/120 (B2 level), 2008. French: Good command in reading/listening, beginner speaking/writing.