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I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and IPEG, and a Research Affiliate at J-PAL, CEPR, and BREAD. I work on development, organizational and political economics. I am also co-editor at the World Bank Economic Review and associate editor at the Economic Journal.
I co-organize a biweekly Virtual Development Seminar (VDEV-CEPR-BREAD) with Giacomo De Giorgi, Nicolás de Roux, Garance Genicot, Karen Macours, and Anthony Wambugu. You can see the schedule and videos of past seminars here.
Recent Highlights
New Grant! (Dec. '24) I've been granted an ICREA Academia to intensify my research activities for the next 5 years!
Paper accepted for publication! (Sept. '24) "The Allocation of Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: Evidence from a Community Health Program in Sierra Leone" (with Erika Deserranno, Stefano Caria, and Philipp Kastrau) has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Political Economy!
Paper accepted for publication! (Jul. '24) My paper "Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector" (with Erika Deserranno and Philipp Kastrau) has been accepted for publication at the American Economic Review: Insights!
Published paper! (Feb. '24) My paper Immigration, Labor Markets, and Discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú (with Andre Gröger and Steve Stillman) is now published at World Development!
Updated working paper! (Mar. '24) An updated version of my paper Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru is now available.
Paper accepted for publication! (Feb. '24) "Policy-Making, Trust and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Nationwide Family Planning Program" (with Dijana Zejcirovic and Fernando Fernandez) is now forthcoming at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy!
Accepted Working paper! (Jul. '23) My paper "When Transparency Fails: Financial Incentives for Local Banking Agents in Indonesia" (with Erika Deserranno and Firman Witoelar) has been accepted for publication at the Review of Economics and Statistics!
Contact info:
Mailing Address:Department of Economics and BusinessUniversitat Pompeu FabraCalle Ramon Trias Fargas 23-25, Barcelona 0805Jaume I Building, 20.2E16E-mail: gianmarco.leon@upf.eduPhone: +34 93 542 1757 Cell phone: +34 603 175 250 Skype: gianmarco.leonTwitter: @Gianmarco_LeonC
Upcoming talks and public appearances:
Nov 4th: Round table on the 2024 Nobel prize at the Fundación Ramón Areces.
Jul 2nd: Keynote address at the Patras Applied Microeconomics Workshop.
Jan 17th: Conference Presentation at the STEG annual meeting in Barcelona.
Dec 12th: Conference Presentation at the CEPR Policy Forum in Paris.
Nov 21st: Interview discussing my paper "How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy"
Oct. 24th: VoxDev published an article based on my paper "Policy-Making, Trust and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Nationwide Family Planning Program"
Sept 25th: Interview discussing my paper "When Transparency Fails: Financial Incentives for Local Banking Agents in Indonesia"
May 15th: Conference presentation at RIDGE-Political Economy conference in Montevideo.
Apr. 28th: Conference presentation at the Call to Service Conference at Stanford University.
Apr. 22th: Conference presentation at the 12th Dutch Development Conference in Groningen.
Mar. 20th: Virtual presentation at the Seminario de Microeconomía Aplicada en Perú.
Feb. 16th: Conference presentation at EUDN Scientific Conference (Geneva)