S, tefania Simion

Email: stefania.simion@bristol.ac.uk, Updated October 2020 [email protected] Website: www.stefaniasimion.com

FIELDS OF Economics of Education, Gender Economics, Labour Economics, INTERESTS

WORK Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Bristol, 2019-present EXPERIENCE Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Edinburgh 2016-2019

EDUCATION PhD Economics, Queen Mary University of London 2012-2017

MSc Economics, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics 2011-2012

MA(Hons) Economics, University of Edinburgh 2007-2011

PUBLICATIONS Charging for Higher Education: Estimating the Impact on Inequality and Student Outcomes (with G. Azmat) - The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Accepted.

WORKING Pay Transparency and Cracks in the Glass Ceiling (with E. Duchini and A. Turrell), CAGE PAPERS working paper, no. 482 & RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Demographic Bulges and Labour Market Outcomes The Internationalisation of British Universities: a Dividend or a Deterrent?

Are Girls Always More Likely to Give up? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low- Achieving Students (with A. Bizopoulou and R. Megalokonomou)

Fluid Intelligence, Crystallised Intelligence and Financial Decisions (with T. Sulka)

Gender Differences in Negative Exam Marking (with G. Azmat and M. Guell)

UG TEACHING Lecturer and Course Organiser Econometrics 1, University of Bristol 2019-present Economics of Education, University of Edinburgh 2017-2019 Economics UG Dissertation Coordinator, University of Edinburgh 2017-2019 Intermediate Econometrics, University of Malta 2018 UG TEACHING Tutor (CONTINUED) Economic Data, University of Bristol 2020-present Applied Economics Dissertation, University of Bristol 2019-present Econometrics 2, University of Bristol 2019-present Applied Microeconomics, University of Bristol 2019-present Intermediate Microeconomics, University of Bristol 2019 Essentials of Econometrics, University of Edinburgh 2018 Topics in Microeconomics, University of Edinburgh 2016-2017 Applications of Econometrics, University of Edinburgh 2017 Statistical Methods in Economics, Queen Mary University of London 2012-2016 Industrial Economics, Queen Mary University of London 2012-2016 Microeconomics I, Queen Mary University of London 2013-2014 Games and Strategies, Queen Mary University of London 2012 Applications of Econometrics (STATA labs), University of Edinburgh 2010 Essentials of Econometrics (STATA labs), University of Edinburgh 2010

PG TEACHING MSc Economics Dissertation Supervisor, University of Bristol 2020-present MSc Economics Dissertation Supervisor, University of Edinburgh 2017-2019

OTHER WORK Other Academic Positions EXPERIENCE BSc Economics and Finance programme director, University of Bristol 2020-present BSc Economics programme director, University of Bristol 2019-present SUSC and SSLC Member, University of Bristol 2019-present Personal Tutor, University of Bristol 2019-present Personal Tutor, University of Edinburgh 2016-2019 Go Abroad Economics Organiser, University of Edinburgh 2017-2019 Teaching and Learning Committee Member, University of Edinburgh 2017-2019 Student - Staff Liaison Committee Organiser, University of Edinburgh 2016-2019 Annual School Audit Organiser, University of Edinburgh 2017-2019 Organiser of Teaching Workshops, University of Edinburgh 2018

Research Assistant Worked for Prof. Ghazala Azmat, Center for Economic Performance Spring 2015 Worked for Dr. Rebecca Homkes, London Business School 2013, 2014, 2016 Worked for Dr. Olga Gorbacev, University of Edinburgh Summer 2010 AWARDS & Nominated for Teaching Award, University of Edinburgh 2018 SCHOLARSHIPS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, Queen Mary University of London 2014-2016 Departmental Ph.D. Scholarship, Queen Mary University of London 2012-2016 Postgraduate Research Fund,Queen Mary University of London 2014 Royal Economic Society Small Academic Expenses Scheme 2014 Partial Tuition Fee Waiver, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics 2011-2012 Prize for Top Three Best Performance in Economics, University of 2011 Edinburgh Morgan Stanley Award for Academic Excellence in Junior Honours, 2010 University of Edinburgh

CONFERENCES Virtual 5th IZA Workshop: The Economics of Education 2020 & Virtual Congress EEA 2020 INVITED SEMINARS Virtual 19th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting for Labor Economists 2020 Economics Seminar, University of Brunel (invited) 2020 EEA-ESEM, University of Manchester 2019 Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics 2018, 2019 Economics Research Seminar Series, University of Dundee (invited) 2019 Workshop on Social Inequalities and Quantitative Methods, Moray 2018 House School of Education, University of Edinburgh (invited) European Association of Labour Economists Conference 2017, 2018 Workshop on Education and Expectations, Royal Holloway University of 2018 London (invited) Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Economics of Education 2018 Summer School, BGSE Annual Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from 2015, 2017, 2018 Abroad, Romania Leicester PhD Conference, University of Leicester 2016 Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Queen Mary University of London 2015, 2016 XI Jornadas de Economia Laboral, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2015 Annual PhD conference, Queen Mary University of London 2013, 2014

OTHER Economics Network Virtual Symposium 2020 CONFERENCES Developments in Economics Education Conference 2017, 2019 & WORKSHOPS BGSE Economics of Education Summer School, BGSE 2018 ATTENDED Early Career Workshop, University of Oxford 2018 Gender Conference, University of Edinburgh 2017 Workshop on Financing of Higher Education, University Carlos III 2017 REFEREEING Economics of Education Review; Xjenza Online - The Journal of the Malta Chamber of Scien- tists; IZA Journal of Labour Policy

SKILLS Computer: STATA(advanced); LaTEX(advanced); MS Office(advanced)

Languages: Romanian(native); English(fluent); French(fair); Spanish(fair)