Biography

She is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.
She is the Director of the Labour Economics Program at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. In 2024, she was appointed President of the Joint Appointments Committee.
She is currently the co-editor in charge of the ‘Economic Journal’.
Her work focuses on the causes of gender inequalities in labor market outcomes, both from a historical perspective and at an international level, with particular attention to the role of occupational selection mechanisms, structural transformation, and interactions within the family unit.
She has worked extensively on labor market performance with job search frictions, with applications to unemployment dynamics, welfare policies, and interdependencies between local labor markets.