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Martina Giorgia Viarengo

Swiss Scholar

    Term

    May 4, 2015 — August 28, 2015

    Professional affiliation

    Professor, Department of Economics, Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva

    Wilson Center Projects

    “From Ellis Island to Silicon Valley: The Impact of Mass Migration on Entrepreneurialism, Innovation, Inequality and Economic Power”

    Full Biography

    Martina Viarengo is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She is faculty associate at the Harvard’s Center for International Development and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Women's Empowerment. Prior to joining the Graduate Institute's faculty, Professor Viarengo was an economist at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Viarengo is a specialist in applied microeconomics and development. Her research focuses on international migration, comparative education policy and gender. In 2013 Dr Viarengo was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2009 Professor Viarengo was named Newton International Fellow by the British Academy, Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University

    Major Publications

    Pritchett L. and M. Viarengo (2015), “The State, Socialization and Private Schooling: When will Governments support Alternative Producers?”, forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies

    Martinez-Fritscher A., A. Musacchio and M. Viarengo (2014), “Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930”, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp.730-766

    Bandiera O., I. Rasul and M. Viarengo (2013), “The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 102, May, pp. 23-47