Biography

Gema Zamarro received her Ph.D. in Economics from CEMFI (Central Bank of Spain foundation), Madrid, Spain in 2005. Her Ph.D. research belongs to an emerging literature on returns to schooling that emphasizes the fact that returns may be heterogeneous among individuals and that people may consider their returns when making schooling decisions. From 2005 to 2007 she was assistant professor in the department of Econometrics of Tilburg University (Tilburg, The Netherlands). She has performed research on applied econometrics in both labor and education topics. Her current research in education focuses on the effect of teacher quality on student performance and, on analyzing the determinants of school choice. In addition, she is also working on determining retirement effects on health and, on family labor supply and child care decisions.