Role
Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Calabria on leave and currently Manager at the INPS Central Directorate, Rome.
Bio
Maria De Paola graduated in Economics from the University of Calabria in 1992 and earned a PhD in Political Economy from Sapienza University of Rome. She has been a visiting student at Cambridge and the University of East Anglia.
She was a researcher and associate professor at the University of Calabria, where she has been a full professor of Political Economy since 2017. She is currently on leave to assume the position of Manager at the INPS Central Directorate in Rome.
Since 2013 he has been a Research Fellow at the IZA in Bonn.
Her research focuses on labor economics, education economics, public policy evaluation, and gender differences.