Núria Rodríguez-Planas is Professor of Economics at City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College, and Doctoral Faculty at The Graduate Center at CUNY. In 2023, she received a 5-year ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to lead the project "The Causal Effect of Motherhood, Gender Norms, and Cash Transfers to Women on Intimate Partner Violence (WomEmpower)." Starting in 2024, she will be Distinguished Researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona. In 2022, she was named Russell Sage Foundation Scholar. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Economics of the Household and was the managing editor of the IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2012-23). During the academic years 2020 to 2022, she was Research Scholar at Barnard College at Columbia University. Prior to moving to New York, she was Research Fellow at IZA in Bonn (2012-15); Visiting Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Institut d'Analisi Economica (2012-13); Assistant Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2004-12); and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (2007-12). She has also held positions in Washington DC as an Economist at Mathematica Policy Research (2000-04), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System(1998-2000), and the Brookings Institution (1997-98). She received her Ph.D. in Economics in 1999 from Boston University.

Her research is mostly distributed across three broad highly policy-relevant topics: (1) Policies, Institutions, and Social Justice in Labor Economics and Human Capital Development; (2) Social Norms and Behavioral Decisions; and (3) Public Health Issues.

According to RePEC, she is ranked in the top 1.5% of all economists in the last 10 years.

As Principal Investigator, she has received grants from the European Research Council, Russell Sage Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, BBVA, IZA, PSC-CUNY, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities, FUNCAS, among others. All together these grants amount to about $3.2 millions (only counting those where she was PI).

She has published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among other journals. Much of her work has been written about in The Wilson Quarterly, The New York Times, El País, El Economista, and La Vanguardia, and has been covered internationally by radio and television.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6770
substantially revised verion published in: Journal of Behavior & Economics, 2017, 139, 166-181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6547
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 167-180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6543
Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas
published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6542
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas
substantially revised version published as 'Do Moroccan Migrants to Spain Fare Better or Worse than Other Migrants?' in: Middle East Development Journal, 2014, 6 (2), 308 - 328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6368
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas
published in: Middle East Development Journal, 2011, 3 (2), 119-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5888
substantially revised version published as 'Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects' in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 124 - 136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5815
substantially revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77 (4), 512 - 541
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5709
significantly revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5403
published as 'The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (1), 169-197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5255
substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490
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