Pedro Luis Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is also an Assistant Professor of Research (on leave) at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES).

He received his Ph.D. in economics in 2021 at the University of Nottingham, UK, with the thesis entitled “Essays on the Economics of Higher Education”. During my PhD, he was a visiting student at the IAE-CSIC in Barcelona. Prior to joining UAB, he worked at Nova SBE, the Polytechnic of Lisbon, CIPES, and the School of Economics at the University of Porto.He completed his first degree in economics and his Masters at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon.

Pedro’s research focuses on labour economics and applied microeconometrics, particularly education economics. His work has focused on higher education on different dimensions, such as high school grade inflation, college admission, diversification on the university entrance criteria, and student performance.


Pedro Luis Silva joined IZA as a research Affiliate in March 2022.