Irma Clots-Figueras

CONTACT DETAILS: Irma Clots-Figueras Departamento de Economía Universidad Carlos III de Madrid C./ Madrid, 126 28903 Getafe (Madrid) Spain [email protected] [email protected] Tel : (+34) 916248667 Fax: (+34) 916249875 http://irmaclots.googlepages.com/ CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor. Department of Economics. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. September 2006-Present.

EDUCATION: -PhD in economics. London School of Economics August 2006 -Second year of the PhD in Economics and Finance. (2001). Universitat Pompeu Fabra (With Honors) -MSc in Economics. (2000). Universitat Pompeu Fabra. (With Honors) -B.A. (Licenciatura) in Economics. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1999) Graduated first in the 1999 promotion. -B.A. (Licenciatura) in Business Administration. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2001) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics.

PUBLICATIONS: "Compulsory Language Educational Policies and Identity Formation" (with Aspachs, O., CostaFont, J. and Masella, P.), Journal of the European Economic Association, 6 (2-3), 434-444, April-May 2008.

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PAPERS-Revise and Resubmit: “Women in Politics. Evidence from the Indian States”, 2008. R&R Journal of Public Economics. “Are Female Leaders Good for education? Evidence from India” 2009. PAPERS- Submitted: “Education, Language and Identity”. 2009. Joint with Aspachs, O.,and Masella, P.

OTHER ARTICLES: “The Effect of Female Representation on Policy in Indian Politics.”, STICERD Review 2004

WORK IN PROGRESS: “Health and the Political Agency of Women”, joint with Bhalotra, S. “The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Parental Outcomes”, joint with Avitabile, C. and Masella, P. “Caste and Education in India”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: -GRADUATE: From October 2004- June 2006: Macroeconomics for MSc students. LSE September 2002: Mathematics for MSc students. LSE -UNDERGRADUATE: Public Economics II: 2006-2009 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid August 2004: Introductory Microeconomics. LSE Summer School in Economics. From October 2002 until June 2004: Macroeconomic Principles. LSE From September 1999 until June 2001: Economic Theory IV. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. From September 1999 until June 2001: Mathematics II. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

RELEVANT POSITIONS HELD: September 2004-present: Tutorial Fellow Department of Economics of the London School of Economics March 2005-present: Seminar Organizer: STICERD Work in Progress Seminar

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October 2002-present: Occasional Research Assistant. STICERD. June 2003 and 2004: Examiner in Macroeconomics. University of London, External Programme. September 2001: Rapporteur for the CEPR/CREI conference: Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation. September 2000 until September 2001: Research Assistant for Professor Jordi Gali. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

SEMINARS University of Bocconi –IGIER (2008), University of Bristol (2008), CEMFI (2008), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2007), University of Namur (2006), University of Navarra (2006), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2006 and 2007), Universidad de Alicante (2006), University of Warwick (2008, 2006), University of Essex (2005), University of Barcelona (2004), Labour Markets Workshop. LSE/CEP (2005), EOPP Seminar LSE/STICERD (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: INVITED PAPERS: EEA Annual Conference. Budapest 2007. Invited session presented by Paolo Masella. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: AEA Meeting (San Francisco, January 2009). CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics. Poster presentation. (Amersee, October 2008) ESPE conference (UCL, London June 2008) Royal Economic Society, Annual Conference. (University of Warwick, March 2008). Simposio de Análisis Económico. (Granada December 2007) ESPE conference ( Chicago June 2007) First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society (March 2007) North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society. (January 2007) World Bank conference in Inequality. (June 2006) Royal Economic Society, Annual Conference. Nottingham 2006. Student Political Economics Conference at NBER (November 2005) NEUDC Conference. Providence, RI (2005). EEA Annual Conference. Amsterdam 2005. SMYE 2005 conference. European Public Choice Society , Annual Meeting. Durham 2005. Royal Economic Society, Annual Conference. Nottingham 2005. EEA-ESEM Annual Conference. Madrid 2004. Travel grant awarded. ESPE conference. Bergen 2004. Travel grant awarded. European Doctoral Programme Jamboree (Bonn 2004, Barcelona 2003)

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LANGUAGES Fluent: English, Catalan (native speaker) and Spanish (native speaker) Basic: Italian and French.

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2009-2011 Juan de la Cierva Fellowship. Spanish Ministry of Education. Research grants: MEC (SEJ2004-07861/ECON) and MEC (SEJ2007-67436) September 2004-June 2006 Batista Roca Scholarship. DURSI Generalitat de Catalunya. September 2003-August 2004: Fundacion Caja de Madrid Scholarship September 2001-August 2003: Bank of Spain Scholarship September 2001: Fundacion Caja de Madrid Scholarship (awarded) September 1999-August 2001: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Fellowship June 1999: Universitat Pompeu Fabra graduation prize for Exceptional Achievement (Highest grades in the 1999 promotion)