CV

Appointments

8/2019 - Present Professor of Economics, Economics Department, University of Technology Sydney

9/2011 – 8/2019 Professor of Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Research,

University of Essex, UK

10/2014 – 12/2017 Research Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research,

University of Essex, UK

1/2014 – Present Visiting Professor, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

7/2010 – 1/2012 Economist, RAND Corporation, USA

1/2005 – 6/2010 Associate Economist, RAND Corporation, USA

7/2004 – 8/2011 Assistant Professor, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 2004.

Dissertation: Subjective Expectations and Contraception

Committee Chairperson: Professor Charles F. Manski

B.A.: Economics Major, HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, France, Dec. 1998.

Teaching Experience

University of Technology Sydney, 2019

Econometrics III (PhD level)

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2004-2011

Poverty: Concept and Challenges (master level), Development Economics

(undergraduate and master level), Statistics for Economics and Management

(undergraduate level)

Ph.D. Masterclass “Measuring expectations and predicting choice behavior” at DIW-Berlin

(2010)

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, 2000-2002

Econometrics (graduate level); Economic Demography, Public Finance, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Money & Banking (undergraduate level)

PhD students supervision and first placement:

Mafalda Sampaio (Chair), McKinsey, Portugal

Ericka Rascon (2nd supervisor), Middlesex University London, UK

Tina Rampino (2nd supervisor), University of Queensland, Australia

Seetha Menon (1st supervisor), Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Italy

Duygu Ozdemir (1st supervisor), post-doctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-

Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Andrea Catalina Blanco (1st supervisor)

Joshua Fullard (1st supervisor)

Grants and Awards

ESRC, Research Centre on Micro-Social Change – 2019-2024 (International Co-Investigator; Director: Brewer). (£6,291,787)

University of Essex PVC Research Strategic Fund, Partnership Building with Pakistan – 2016-2017 (PI: Delavande) (£15K)

NIA R21, The Benefits of Knowledge: Mortality Risks, Mental Health and Life-Cycle Behavior – 2016-2018 (Co-PI with Kohler) ($275K)

ESRC, The effects of a tailored health warning on socio-economic behaviours and health outcomes, (PI: Delavande) – 2016-2018 (£190,909)

ESRC, Inequality in Higher Education Outcomes in the UK: Subjective Expectations, Preferences and Access to Information – 2015-2020 (PI: Delavande) (£964,766)

Nuffield Foundation, Information, Expectations and Transition to Higher Education – 2014-2017 (PI: Delavande) (£62,425)

ESRC, Research Centre on Micro-Social Change – 2014-2019 (Co-director; Director: Brewer). (£5,635,390)

NIA P01, Health and Economic Status in Older Populations – 2014-2019 (PI: Hurd) (Essex Budget: £92,201)

HEFCE, Post-Graduate Research Schemes – 2014-2015 (PI: Virdee). (£1,289,487).

Michigan Retirement Research Center, Expectations about Social Security and Retirement Planning: The Role of Uncertainty and the Impact of Economic Shocks (Delavande, Rohwedder) - 2011-2012 ($100K).

NICHD R03, Subjective Expectations and Health-Related Behavior – 2009-2011 (PI:

Delavande) ($95K).

NICHD R03, Subjective Expectations and Birth Control Choice – 2009-2011 (PI:

Delavande) ($95K).

RAND Initiated Research, Opinions and Choices of Pakistani Youth - 2009-2011 (PI:

Delavande) ($269K).

NIA R01, the Cost of Dementia - 2007-2012 (PI: Hurd) ($1,227K).

Michigan Retirement Research Center, Early Social Security Claiming and Cognitive Resources (Delavande, Willis) - 2007-2008. ($100K)

Michigan Retirement Research Center, Individuals’ Uncertainty about Their Future Social Security Benefits (Delavande, Rohwedder) - 2007-2008. ($100K)

RAND Population Research Center Seed Grant, Probabilistic Expectations about HIV in Rural Malawi (PI: Delavande) 2006-2007 ($30K)

MICROCON (A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict), European Commission, 2007-2011 (Director: Justino) (Nova Budget: 93K Euros)

Michigan Retirement Research Center, Managing the Risk of Life (Delavande, Willis) – 2006-2007 ($100K)

Michigan Retirement Research Center, Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming, (Delavande, Willis) 2005-2006 ($150K)

RAND Center for the Study of Aging – Pilot Project, Differential Mortality in Europe and the US: Estimates based on subjective probabilities of survival and their reliability (Delavande, Rohwedder) – 2005-2006 ($50K)

NICHD R21, Incentives, Information and Sexual Relations in Malawi (PI: Kohler), 2004-2005 ($275K)