EWA CUKROWSKA -TORZEWSKA 1/2015 Personal data E-mail: e.cukrowska@gmail.com, ecukrowska@wne.uw.edu.pl Telephone: +48 601536939 Date and Place of Birth: 14.01.1988, Białystok, Poland EDUCATION AND ACADEMICS 2011 2015 University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Warsaw, Poland (expected) Department of Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory PhD program in Economics 2009 2011 Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary MA in Economics with Distinction 2006-2009 Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa), Warsaw, Poland BA in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE Jan 2014 - Apr 2014 Educational Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland External Expert Preparation of two publications on the local problems of educational systems in the selected regions of Poland. Aug 2013 Sept 2013Central European University Business School, Initiative for Regulatory Innovation, Budapest, Hungary Research Associate Quantitative research support for Prof. Maciej Kisilowski and Prof. Bernadett Koles within the grant from Google Research Award. July 2013 Aug 2013 Educational Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland External Expert Preparation of a chapter on financing opportunities of vocational and technical high schools in the Czech Republic. Oct 2012 Jan 2013 United Nations Development Programme for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bratislava Regional Centre, Bratislava, Slovakia Intern at Poverty Reduction Practise Preparation of a chapter on gender inequality measurement for a volume Tracking Human Development Manual. Involved in the preparation of an empirical research paper on intersectional inequalities of Roma and gender in the selected countries of CEE. Jul 2011 Mar 2012 Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Warsaw, Poland 1
Junior Economist Economic modeling and evaluation of existing public policies and development strategies. Primarily involved in the research on the benefits drawn by the EU15 Member States from the cohesion policy implementation in Visegrad Group countries (see publications). Responsible for the contacts with the experts from partner countries, data gathering and processing, economic modeling, writing the final report. Nov 2010 Jan 2011 International Center for Economic Growth European Center (ICEG EC), Budapest, Hungary Assistance in the project: ICTNET - European Network for the Research on the Economic Impact of ICT Assistance in the project involved data and information gathering concerning the most innovative companies in Poland. Sep 2007 - Mar 2008 Institute of Labour and Social Studies (IPiSS), Warsaw, Poland Research Assistant Voluntary assistance in the research project: Poverty and social exclusion - methods of combating. Preparing materials and data for the final publication of the paper entitled Millennium Development Goals in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (see publications). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Feb 2015 Jun 2015 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences Feb 2014 Jun 2014 Department of Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory Feb 2013 Jun 2013 Teaching Assistant Undergraduate: Macroeconomics I RESEARCH AND STUDY VISITS 2015 CEEPUS Scholarship at the Central European University, Department of Economics, Budapest, Hungary (January 2015-February 2015) 2014 Summer School in Survey Methodology organized by the University Pompeu Fabra, 7.07 11.07.2014, Barcelona, Spain 2014 Summer School Inequalities organized by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) of the University Roma Tre under the patronage of the US-Italy Fulbright Commission, 30.06 4.07.2014, Rome, Italy 2013 2014 Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Lot 5 Strand 1 Whole Europe Beyond the Borders scholarship, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine (September 2013 February 2014) 2012 PhD course on Social Policy, Life Course and Gender organized by NOVA Norwegian Social Research, 21-25.09.2012, Oslo, Norway 2
HONORS AND AWARDS 2014-2015 Scholarship for doctoral students in economics awarded by the Foundation of the National Bank of Poland 2013-2014 Scholarship for doctoral students awarded by the Government of Mazowieckie Voivodeship Rozwój nauki rozwojem regionu - stypendia i wsparcie towarzyszące dla mazowieckich doktorantów 2012-2015 Scholarship for top PhD students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences University of Warsaw 2012-2015 Academic Performance Award, University of Warsaw (for the highest GPA) 2011-2015 Rector scholarship for doctoral students, University of Warsaw 2011 Stanislav Vidovic Award for the best MA thesis in the Department of Economics, CEU 2010-2011 International Visegrad Fund Scholarship 2009-2011 CEU Merit based Scholarship (full scholarship) 2006-2009 Merit-based Scholarship (Warsaw School of Economics, SGH) RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED 2014 Research Grant PRELUDIUM from the Polish National Science Centre (NCN): Comparative analysis of the parenthood impact on the labor market performance of men and women: Do family benefits matter? (September 2014-February 2016) 2014 Research grant: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences (October 2014-October 2015) 2013 Research grant: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences (October 2013-October 2014) 2013 GDN Grant No. RRC13+47: The impact of parenthood status on male-female wage differentials: Are children driving the gender wage gap? Evidence from Poland and Hungary together with Anna Lovász (Principal Investigator) from Institute of Economics, Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (January 2013- June 2014) 2012 Research grant: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences (October 2012-October 2013) PUBLICATIONS Cukrowska-Torzewska, E. (2014). Gender Pay Gap in Poland (Luka płacowa w Polsce), Infos nr 19(179), Biuro Analiz Sejmowych (in Polish) Cukrowska-Torzewska, E. (2014). Intersectionality of ethnicity and gender: exploring Romani women s performance in education, Ekonomia nr 36/2014: 51-89. Cukrowska, E. (2014). Is it the labor market that undervalues women or women themselves? Evidence from Poland, Quantitative Methods in Economics 15(1): 18-29. 3
Cukrowska, E. (2013). Measuring Gender Inequality. Gender Sensitive Indicators and Aggregate Indexes: What Story Do They Tell?, MIND THE GAP(S) Family, Socialization and Gender, University of Belgrade Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy. Cukrowska, E., Kóczé, A. (2013). Interplay between gender and ethnicity: Exposing Structural Disparities of Romani women. Analysis of the UNDP/World Bank/EC regional Roma survey data. Roma Inclusion Working Papers. Bratislava: UNDP. Cukrowska, E. (2012). Women s position at the labour market at the time of the global collapse: Recent evidence on the occupational sex segregation in the chosen post-communist economies, Conference Proceedings: Welfare of nations in the conditions of global instability, 27-28 April 2012, Odessa National Mechnikov University, Odessa, Ukraine. Cukrowska, E., Cukrowski, J. (2008). Millennium Development Goals in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (Milenijne cele rozwoju w krajach Europy Środkowej i Wspólnoty Niepodległych Państw), (Chapter III), in S.Golinowska (ed.): Od ubóstwa do wykluczenia społecznego. Badania. Koncepcja. Wyniki. Propozycje, Europa i Świat. IPiSS, Warszawa 2008, Seria "Opracowania Projektów Badawczych Zamawianych", pp. 72-88 (in Polish) Analytical Reports Costs of lower and upper secondary education in the Czech Republic (Koszty edukacji ponadgimnazjalnej i policealnej w Czechach), in Sztanderska U. (ed.): Koszty edukacji ponadgimnazjalnej i policealnej. IBE, Warszawa 2014 (in Polish) Assessment of the realization and validity of the goals and priorities of podkarpackie voivodeship s development Strategy for 2007-2020 in the framework of new tasks and challenges of Polish and European Union s development policy (Ocena realizacji oraz aktualności celów i priorytetów rozwojowych Strategii rozwoju województwa podkarpackiego na lata 2007-2020 w kontekście nowych zadań i wyzwań polityki rozwoju kraju i Unii Europejskiej), A. Regulski (ed.), IBS, Warszawa 2012 (in Polish) Assessment of the benefits drawn by the EU15 Member States as a result of the EU Cohesion policy implementation in Visegrad Group countries (Ocena korzyści uzyskiwanych przez Państwa UE-15 z realizacji polityki spójności w krajach Grupy Wyszehradzkiej), J. Zawistowski (ed.), IBS, Warszawa 2011 (in Polish) Work in Progress Cukrowska, E., Yakubovskiy, S. (2014). The inter-sector wage differentials in the post-transition Ukraine: the role of unobserved skills. Cukrowska, E., Lovász, A. (2014). Are children driving the gender wage gap? Comparative Evidence from Poland and Hungary, WNE Working Paper Series No. 16/2014 (133). (also available as: Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market BWP 2014/4, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Human Resources, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, 2014) 4
PRESENTATIONS 30.06-4.07.2014 Summer School Inequalities, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Presentation: Are children driving the gender wage gap? Comparative Evidence from Poland and Hungary. 16-17.09.2013 4th International Conference of Roma Women: Acting now for equal future organized by the Council of Europe, Advisory Board on Romani Affairs, Council for Gender Equality, Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Helsinki, Finland. Presentation: Interplay between gender and ethnicity: Exposing Structural Disparities of Romani women. 16-17.08.2013 Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, CERGE-EI. Global Development Network Regional Research Competition Workshop. Presentation: The impact of parenthood status on male-female wage differentials: Are children driving the gender wage gap? Evidence from Poland and Hungary. 23-24.05.2013 Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Conference: The International Colloquium on Current Economic and Social Topics CEST 2013 focused on Gender Disparities and Financial Markets Analysis. Presentation: Is it the labor market that undervalues women or women themselves? Evidence from Poland. 18-20.04.2013 Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia. Conference: Mind the Gap. Family Socialization and Gender. Presentation: Measuring Gender Inequality. Gender Sensitive Indicators and Aggregate Indexes: What Story Do They Tell? 27-28.04.2012 Odessa National Mechnikov University, Odessa, Ukraine. Conference: Welfare of nations in the conditions of global instability. Presentation: Women s position at the labor market at the time of the global collapse: Recent evidence on the occupational sex segregation in the chosen postcommunist economies. LANGUAGES Polish native English fluent Czech fluent (lived in Prague, Czech Republic, 1992-2000) Russian advanced SKILLS AND OTHER Computer: MS Office: Word (very good), Excel (VBA); (good), Power Point (very good) Special software for econometrics and mathematics: Stata (very good), EViews (good), Gretl (very good), SPSS (good) 5
Other: LaTeX (satisfactory), Mapinfo (very good) Volunteering: CEU Alumni Leader in Poland (2011) Additional: Driving License (2007) Certificate of Competency Yacht Coastal Skipper (2006), Certificate of Competency Inland Skipper (2003), Certificate of Competency Motor Boat Helmsman (2006), International Basic Windsurf License (2008) Working as a Sailing Instructor: June-July 2007 Sailing Agency Skipper ; July-August 2008 - Tourist Agency Kliwer 6