Andrea Christina Felfe Universität St. Gallen www.sew.unisg.ch/felfe Swiss Institute of Empirical Economic Research Office phone: +41 712242329 Varnbüelstr.14 Mobile phone: +41 767178138 CH - 9000 St. Gallen Email: christina.felfe@unisg.ch Civil Status: Married Children: Olivia (born November 30, 2013) on maternity leave December 2013-April 2014 Language: German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (very good), French (good), Italian (good) FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Applied Econometrics, Education Economics, Labor Economics ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Universität St. Gallen, since 08/2008 Econometric Consultant at the Swiss Institute of Empirical Economics Research, since 08/2008 Visiting Researcher at University of Amsterdam, July-September 2011, April 2012 AFFILIATIONS CESifo Research Fellow, since 11/2014 Member of BevölkerungssökonomischerAusschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitk, since 02/2014 Member of BildungsökonomischerAusschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitk, since 03/2013 Affiliate Kompetenznetzwerk Frühe Kindheit, Universität Konstanz, since 03/2013 CESifo Research Affiliate, 05/2009 10/2014 EDUCATION PhD in Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08/2004-07/2008 (summa cum laude) Dissertation: "Economic Consequences of Motherhood - The Role of Job Disamenities" (Supervisor: Libertad González) Committee: Juan Jose Dolado, Gosta Esping-Anderson, Sergi Jiménez, Sara de la Rica, Ernesto Villanueva Visiting PhD Student London School of Economics, 03-07/2007 M.Sc. Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 09/2003-08/2004 (with distinction) Graduate Studies Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2002-2003 M.A. in Cultural Studies Universität Passau, 1997-2002 B.A. in Economics Universität Passau, 1998-2001
PUBLICATIONS When Does Time Matter? Maternal Employment, Children's Time with Parents and Child Development (2014), Demography, 51(5): 1867-1894 (with A. Hsin) "Can t buy Mommy s Love?Universal Child Care and Children s Long-term Cognitive Development: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics, DOI 10.1007/s00148-014-0532-x (with N. Rodriguez-Planas & N. Nollenberger) After-School Care and Children s Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills (2014), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy Contributions 14(4): 1299-1336 (with L. Zierow) The Motherhood Wage Gap What about Job Amenities? (2012), Labour Economics 19(1): 59ff The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work (2012), Industrial and Labor Relations Review 65(2): 10ff Maternal Work Conditions and Child Development (2012), Economics of Education Review 31(6): 1037-1057 (with A. Hsin) "The closer the sportier? On the level of children's sport activity and their distance to sports facilities (2011), European Review of Ageing and Physical Activity, 8(2):67-82 (with A. Steinmayr & M. Lechner) WORKING PAPERS The Tempest: Natural Disasters, Early Shocks and Children's Short- and Long-Run Outcomes", (2014) CESifo WP 4168, with E. Deuchert, (revise & resubmit at European Economic Review) Does preschool boost the development of minority children? The case of young Romas in Eastern and Central Europe (2014),mimeo, with M. Huber (revise & resubmit at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A) "Does Early Child Care Help or Hinder Child Development? (2014), IZA DP 8484 with R. Lalive, (submitted) Granting Birthright citizenship: A Door Opener to Immigrant Children s Educational Participation and Success? (2014), CESifo WP 4959, with J. Saurer (submitted) "Sports and Child Development (2013), with A. Steinmayr & M. Lechner, CEPR DP 8523 (submitted) "After-School Care and Parents Labor Supply" (2013), University of St. Gallen DP 2013-34, with M. Lechner and P. Thiemann (under revisions) "Early Child Care and Child Development? For Whom it Works and Why", IZA DP 7100, with R. Lalive (under revision) WORK IN PROGRESS Full-Day Care and Child Development, with Larissa Zierow Statistical Discrimination and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Maternity Leave Extensions in Austria and Germany,with A.Lefter, A. Schlosser & A.Steinhauer
INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS Anreize des Sozial- und Fiskalsystems zur Aufteilung der Betreuungsarbeit in Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Bulletin 1/2015, Dossier Familienrecht Lessons from a Decade of Child Care Reforms: Early Child Care and Child Development in H.W. Sinn CESifo DICE Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons" (1/2015) Child Care Institutions A Relevant Policy Tool to Enhance Gender Equality? (joint with Rolf Iten and Susanne Stern) in B. Liebig, L. Criblez, K. Gotschall and B. Sauer Gender Equality: Theories, Practices, and Perspectives (forthcoming) POPULAR WRITING Nur eine adäquate Familienpolitik gibt den Frauen die Freie Wahl, NZZaS, 24.08.2014 Gleiche Startchancen für alle, NZZ, 15.05.2013 (joint with M. Müller) Schweizer bezahlen europaweit am meisten für Krippenplätze, NZZ am Sonntag, 10.03.2013 Kinderkrippen helfen gegen Lohnungerechtigkeit, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 09.03.2012 Does sport make your kids smarter? New evidence from Germany. VOX EU, 04.11.2011 (joint with M. Lechner and A. Steinmayr) Der Staat kann Vorurteile abbauen, Die Weltwoche, Ausgabe 48/2009, (joint with A. Kunz) THIRD PARTY FUNDS Eidgenössisches Büro für Gleichstellung Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen (Schweiz) HSG Economic Policy NFP60 AWARDS Evaluation des Standardanalysemodells der Eidgenossenschaft zur Lohnungleichheit zwischen Mann und Frau (PI: with Infras; 100 000 CHF) Analyse der Vollkosten und der Finanzierung von Krippenplätzen in Deutschland, Frankreich und Österreich im Vergleich zur Schweiz (with INFRAS; 80 000 CHF), 2014 Research Grant for the Research Project Early Child Development, (12 000 CHF), 2012-2013 Swiss National Science Foundation Project: Gender Equality: The Role of Child Care Services (Co-PI; with M. Lechner, P. Thiemann and INFRAS; 350 000 CHF), 2010-2013 HSG Quantitative Economics Research Incentives for Publications (Rank 1, 15 000 CHF), 2014 HSG Quantitative Economics Research Incentives for Publications (Rank 1, 18 000 CHF), 2013 Best Paper Award Winner of the Heinz König Young Scholar Award for the paper "The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work" (5000 Euro), 2009
Research Grant Winner of the Eva L. Mueller New Directions in Economics and Demography Fund (with Amy Hsin; 7000 USD), 2009 RTN Research Fellowship Federación de Economía Aplicada and REVISER, 2006 Research Grant Centre de Referencia en Economía Analítica, 2004-2006 RTN Research Grant European Commission & CEPR, 2003-2004 Study Grant DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 1999-2000 Grant for Gifted Students Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Education, 1997-2002 CONFERENCES & INVITED TALKS 2015: Universität Mannheim (scheduled March 27), UC San Diego (scheduled April 22), UC Santa Barbara (scheduled April 24), USC (scheduled April 29), UC Davis (scheduled May 1), Essex University (scheduled May 11), EEA (scheduled August), 2014: Bevölkerungsökonomischer Ausschuss (Linz) Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss (München); Barcelona Summer Forum (Barcelona), EALE (Ljublijana), NIW (Hannover) 2013: Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education (Lisbon); Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss (Wuppertal); RES Meetings (London); DIW (Berlin); SOLE (Boston); University of Turin; ESPE (Aarhus); EEA (Gothenburg); University of Mannheim; EALE(Turin); CESifo Munich 2012: Norges Handelshøyskole (Bergen); CESIfo Area Conference on Economics of Education (Munich); CESifo & UCLS Conference on Families, Children & Human Capital Formation (Munich); SOLE (Chicago) 2011: Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam); University of Uppsala; Universitat de Barcelona; CESIfo Area Conference on Economics of Education (Munich); International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (Catanzaro); Workshop on Empirical Analysis of Family Economics (Aarhus); Conference on Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence (Stockholm); SOLE (Vancouver); SAE (Malaga) 2010: Albert-Ludwig Universität (Freiburg); DIW (Berlin); CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education (Munich); XREAP Workshop on the Economics of Education (Barcelona); Leibniz Conference on Non-cognitive Skills (London); ASSA-AEA Meetings (Atlanta); ESPE(Essen); SAE (Madrid); Verein für Socialpolitik (Kiel) 2009: Bocconi University (Milan); Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona); IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting (Buch/Ammersee); Leibniz Conference on Non-cognitive Skills (Berlin); ZEW Summer Workshop (Mannheim); CESifo Area Conference on the Employment and Social Protection (Munich), Verein für Socialpolitik (Magdeburg); EEA (Barcelona); ESPE (Sevilla); SAE (Valencia) 2008: Rand Corporation (Santa Monica); University St. Gallen; CEPS/Instead (Luxembourg); Bilkent University (Ankara); Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Budapest); Universidad del Pais Vasco (Bilbao); Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona); Workshop on Gender and Inequality (Mannheim); AOM (Anaheim); RC28 (Palo Alto); RES PhD Meeting (London); SAE (Zaragoza)
2007: London School of Economics; University College London; University of Copenhagen; ESPE (Chicago); EALE (Oslo); International Conference on Panel Data (Xiamen); SAE (Granada); 2006: FEDEA (Madrid); EALE (Prague); GSOEP User Conference (Berlin) POLICY EVENTS 2014: Keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Eidgenössische Kommission für Familienfragen (Bern), Keynote speaker at Freiburger Abendvorträge (Freiburg), 2010: Keynote lecture at the Annual Meeting of Swiss Female Lawyers TEACHING EXPERIENCE Microeconometrics I (PhD course) Universität St. Gallen, 2014-2015 Topics in Empirical Economics (graduate) Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru), 2012 Labor Economics (graduate) Universität St. Gallen, 2012-2015 Econometrics I (undergraduate) Universität St. Gallen, 2010-2013 Applied Econometrics (graduate) Universität St. Gallen, 2009 & 2010 Introduction to STATA (graduate) Universität St. Gallen, 2009-2011 Applied Economics (undergraduate) Universität St. Gallen, 2008-2010 Econometrics I (undergraduate) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007 STUDENT SUPERVISION PhD Thesis Co-Supervision: Master Thesis Supervision: >10 Bachelor Thesis Supervision: >25 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Larissa Zierow (LMU München) Member of the Senate at Universität St Gallen, since 02/2015 Vice President of the Non tenured Faculty at Universität St. Gallen, 2013-2014 Organsiation of the Ecoonomic Public Lecture Series, Universität St. Gallen, since 09/2013 Scientific Journal Refereeing: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Econometric Review, Economic Journal, Economics of Education Review, German Economic Review, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Labour, Oxford Economic Papers, Schmoller s Jahrbuch, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, World Bank Economic Review Grant Refereeing: Schweizer Nationalfond, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
REFERENCES Libertad González Luna, Prof. PhD Department of Economics & Business Universitat Pompeu Fabra Libertad.Gonzalez@upf.edu Rafael Lalive, Prof. PhD Department of Economics Université de Lausanne Rafael.Lalive@unil.ch Michael Lechner, Prof. Dr. Swiss Institute of Economic Research University St. Gallen michael.lechner@unisg.ch Kevin Lang, Prof. PhD Department of Economics Boston University lang@bu.edu