Lídia Farré

Lídia Farré is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, and the Program Director of the BSE Master’s Program in Economics of Public Policy. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA and External fellow at CReAM (UCL).

She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI). Her research interests are in the field of Labor and Public Economics with a particular focus on Gender Economics. She has published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others. She is Associated Editor of SERIEs – The Journal of the Spanish Economic Association and leads several research projects related to gender in the labor market financed by different institutions such as La Caixa and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

In 2022, she served as the president of COSME, the subcommittee of the Spanish Economic Association that is in charge of evaluating and promoting the situation of women in the Economics profession. Currently, she is a Council Board Member of Ivàlua, the Catalan Institute for Public Policy Evaluation.