Curriculum Vitae CRISTINA ELISA ORSO January 2015 PERSONAL DETAILS: Date of Birth: 03/26/1981 Place of birth: Tortona (AL), Italy. Nationality: Italian AFFILIATION: Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca Foscari, San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venezia, Italy Room: 43 Phone: +39 0412349105 Mobile: +39 3936392022 E-mail: cristina.orso@unive.it Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza e Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali, Università del Piemonte Orientale, via Cavour, 84 15100 Alessandria, Italy. Phone : +39 0131283837 Fax: +39 0131283704 E-mail: cristina.orso@unipmn.it CURRENT POSITION: SHARE Post-doctoral Researcher, Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca Foscari, Venezia. 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Development Economics, Gender Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Ageing, Policy Evaluations. EDUCATION: 2013 Ph.D in Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. Ph.D Supervisors: Prof. Gilberto Turati, Prof.ssa Mariacristina Piva. Dissertation title: Three Essays on Microcredit and Poverty 2009 Laurea Specialistica in Economics and Public Policy, Università del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Alessandria, Italy. Final mark 110/110 cum laude, print worthy. Dissertation title: Asimmetrie Informative e Microcredito. Advisor: Prof. Mario Ferrero. Subject: Microeconomics. 2005 Laurea triennale in Economics and Finance, Università del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Alessandria, Italy. Final mark 110/110 cum laude. Dissertation title: L andamento della disoccupazione in Piemonte raffrontato con quello italiano nell ultimo decennio. Advisor: Prof. Guido Ortona. Subject: Labor Economics. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2008 Teaching Assistant for Quantitative Methods in Economics (graduate), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria. 2011 Instructor, Economics (undergraduate), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria. 2011-2013 Teaching Assistant for Advanced Microeconomics (graduate), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria. 2014 Instructor, Summer Institute of Ageing, Venice International University. SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS: 2
Ph.D. Scholarship, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, (2009-2012) Research Fellowship, Università del Piemonte Orientale, (January March 2013) Research Fellowship, Università Ca Foscari (April 2013- March 2014) SHARE Research Fellowship, Università Ca Foscari (April 2014- March 2015) Research Grant from AIES and Farmafactoring Foundation (November 2013) VISITING EXPERIENCES: 2012 Visiting Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics and Business and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain. 2014 Visiting Post-Doc at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain. FURTHER EDUCATION 2015 Tenth Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory: Diversity, Fairness and Well-Being, University of Verona (Alba di Canazei), Verona (IT) 2013 Microeconometric Summer School, Dynamic and Non-linear Panel Data Models, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). 2013 Summer Institute of Ageing, Venice International University. 2011 Microeconometric Summer School, Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 2001 2008 Work as accountant at the Studio Commerciale Zacco Dott. Fabrizio, Novi Ligure (AL), Italy. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS : Oct -2011 Sacro Cuore (Italy). Paper presented: Microcredit and poverty reduction: a critical exploration. 3
March-2012 Sacro Cuore (Italy). Paper presented: Microcredit and women s empowerment: a Bayesian latent variable model for the analysis of Bangladesh data. Sept 2012 Sacro Cuore (Italy). Paper presented: Intimate partner violence, women s attitudes towards violence and microcredit participation: evidence from Bangladesh DHS 2007. March 2013 Oct -2014 Nov -2014 POLIS seminar, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria. Paper presented: Microcredit and women s empowerment: a Bayesian latent variable model for the analysis of Bangladesh data. Italian Health Economics Association, Annual Conference, Venice. Paper presented: Explaining Inequalities in the Use of Home Care Services among Elderly: a European Macro-area analysis. SHARE wave 5 Conference, Turin. Paper presented: The driving factors of inequalities in the utilization of health care services among Elderly: a European macro-area analysis. LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS: Languages: Italian, mother tongue English, fluent Spanish, fluent French, basic Software: Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, Openbugs, GAMS, STATA, Scientific WorkPlace. PUBLICATIONS: Non-Randomized versus Randomized approach in microcredit program evaluations: Evidence from Asian countries, submitted. The determinants of women s empowerment in Bangladesh: the role of partner s attitudes and participation in microcredit programs, Revise and resubmit in Journal of Development Studies. Intimate partner violence, attitudes towards violence and microcredit participation: Evidence from the Bangladesh DHS 2007. (preparing to submit). 4
Working Papers: 1. Formal and informal sector: interactions between moneylenders and traditional banks in the rural Indian credit market (2009), Working paper n. 151, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice POLIS. 2. Dalla carità al business: prospettive di microcredito e microfinanza nei Paesi in via di sviluppo (2009), Electronic Journal of Management, Department of Business Economics, Università di Genova. 3. Microcredit and poverty. An overview of the principal statistical methods used to measure the program net impacts (2011), Working Paper n.180, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. 4. Microcredit and Women s Empowerment in Bangladesh: a structural equation model for categorical observed variables. (with Enrico Fabrizi) (2013), DISCE, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Working Paper n.1396, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. 5. Eligibility and inclusiveness of Long-Term Care Institutional frameworks in Europe: a cross-country comparison (with Ludovico Carrino) (2014), Working Paper n. 28, Department of Economics, Ca Foscari University of Venice. WORK IN PROGRESS Explaining Inequalities in the use of home care services among elderly: a European macroarea analysis with Cinzia Di Novi and Vincenzo Carrieri. (Research Project funded by Farmafactoring Foundation). Demand of Long-term care and benefit eligibility across European countries with Ludovico Carrino and Giacomo Pasini. Domestic violence and labor force participation in Spain with Libertad Gonzaleg (Pompeu Fabra University) Venezia, January 25th, 2015. 5