Vasil Yasenov is a Data Scientist at the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Economics from UC Davis in June 2017.
He was born in Bulgaria and prior to moving to Davis, he received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the UC San Diego in 2012. In 2014 he held a brief summer appointment as a researcher in the Ministry of Labor and Public Policy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
His research interests are Labor Economics, Economics of Immigration, and Applied Econometrics. HIs academic work has focused on the impacts of immigration and the effect of school start time on academic performance.
Vasil joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in June 2016 and became an IZA Fellow in November 2021.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15263
Automated Chat Application Surveys Using Whatsapp: Evidence from Panel Surveys and a Mode Experiment
Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov, Jens Hainmueller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14746
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14158
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (1), 164-213
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12689
Jongkwan Lee, Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205, 104558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551
published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11079
Phuc Luong, Lester Lusher, Vasil Yasenov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10605
published online n: Jorunal of Human Resources, 30 Janurary 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10012
published in: Economic Inquiry; 2018, 56 (1), 252 - 262
