Mariana Marchionni is Senior Researcher of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina, a research institution devoted to the study of development and social issues in Latin America.  Marchionni holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UNLP and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of British Columbia. She is a full-time professor and the Director of the Master Program in Economics at UNLP. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Econometrics at UNLP. She is also visiting professor at Universidad de San Andrés and researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina. Marchionni’s main research interests are in the areas of Economics of Education, Gender Economics, Demographic Economics, and Social Policies, and she has published numerous articles in academic journals, books and book chapters on these topics.

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