Position(s) at the Institute

Assistant Professor, International Economics

Profile

PhD, London School of Economics
Martina Viarengo is an assistant professor in the Department of International Economics. She is faculty associate at the Harvard University Center for International Development, at Harvard’s Women and Public Policy Program, a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Women's Empowerment and a member of the International Growth Centre in London. Prior to joining the Graduate Institute's faculty, Professor Viarengo was an economist at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Professor Viarengo is a specialist in applied microeconomics and development. Her research focuses on comparative education policy, gender and international migration. She has examined education policy, gender gaps and labor market outcomes in the OECD and developing countries in trying to better understand how to reduce poverty and inequality. In 2013 Dr Viarengo was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2009 Professor Viarengo was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and she was named Newton International Fellow by the British Academy, Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University.

Areas of expertise

• Development, co-operation and aid policies
• Emerging economies
• Gender, women and public policies
• Governance, local and international
• Knowledge, education and aid policies
• Migration policies and law
• America, Latin and Caribbean
• America, North
• Asia, East

Selected publications

• Viarengo M. Joint with Murtin F. (2011), “The Expansion and Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000”, Economica, Vol.78, No.311, pp.501-522; CEE Discussion Paper 65; Paris School of Economics, Ecole Normale Superieure Working Paper No. 2007-18
• Viarengo M. joint with Holmlund H., S. McNally (2010) “Does Money Matter for Schools?”, Economics of Education Review, Vol.29, pp.1154-1164; IZA Discussion Paper No. 3769; CEE Discussion Paper No. 105
• Viarengo M. joint with Pritchett L. (2010), “Explaining the Cross-National Time-Series Variation in Life Expectancy: Income, Women’s Education, Shifts and What Else?”, Paper published in the Human Development Report 2010 Twentieth Anniversary of the UNDP; UN Human Development Research Paper 2010/31
• Viarengo M. joint with Hausmann R., I. Ganguli (2009), “The Dynamics of the Gender Gap: how do Countries rank in terms of making Marriage and Motherhood compatible with Work?” in the Global Gender Gap Report 2009, Geneva: World Economic Forum Publication
• Viarengo M. joint with Pritchett L. (2009), “Producing Superstars for the Economic Mundial: The Mexican Predicament with Quality of Education”, Chapter 2 in the Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009, Geneva: World Economic Forum Publication; Harvard’s PEPG Discussion Paper 09-01