Marek Hlavac

• European Commission (Brussels, Belgium), Economic Analyst, since 2024 [link]

• Social Policy Institute of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic (Bratislava, Slovakia), Senior Analyst, 2019-2024 [link]

• UWC Adriatic (Duino-Aurisina, Italy), Economics Teacher and Residence Tutor, 2016 - 2019 [link]

• Institute for Financial Policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic (Bratislava, Slovakia), Structural and Expenditures Policies Department, Intern (Labor Mobility Analysis), 2016 [link]

• The Brookings Institution (Washington, DC), Global Economy and Development, Intern (Research Analyst), 2011 [link]

• The World Bank (Washington, DC), Development Economics Research Group (DECRG), Consultant (Research Assistant), 2010 [link]

• Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC), Intern, 2009 [link]

• NERA Economic Consulting (White Plains, NY), Research Associate, 2008 - 2009 [link]

• Adam Smith Institute (London, UK), Research Intern, 2007 [link]

• Transparency International (Bratislava, Slovakia), Intern, 2006 [link]

• Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2017 [link]

  • Dissertation: "Essays in Political Economy" [link], committee: Torben Iversen [link], George Borjas [link], Jeffry Frieden [link]

• MPP, Master of Public Policy in International Policy and Development, Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy, 2011 [link]

• A.B. in Economics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 2008 [link]

  • Halbert White’72 Prize in Economics for the best economics student in the Class of 2008

  • Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize for the best senior thesis on an economics subject

• International Baccalaureate (43/45), UWC Adriatic (Duino-Trieste, Italy), 2004 [link]

• Textual Analysis and Machine Learning with Applications to Economics and Finance, National Bank of Slovakia, June 2023 [link]

• Business Education for Scholars and Teachers, Harvard Business School, January 2016 [link]

• Summer Institute on the History of Economics, Duke University, June 2014 [link] [certificate]

• Professional Certificate in U.S. Law and Methodologies, New York University, June 2009 [link]

• Coursework in Marketing, London School of Economics and Political Science, Summer 2006 [link]

• Summer Institute of Hispanic Studies, Universidad de Leon (Leon, Spain), Summer 2005 [link]

     Principal Instructor:

• International Baccalaureate (IB) Economics, UWC Adriatic, August 2016 - March 2019 [link]

• Principles of Microeconomics for Mid-Career Master of Public Administration Students, Harvard University, multiple summers since 2013 [link]

• Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economics (undergraduate tutorial), Harvard University

  • Up-to-date online version: [course website]

  • Examples of past syllabi: Spring 2015 [syllabus], Spring 2013 [syllabus]

  • Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Distinction in Teaching by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard

• Beginners' Slovak, Global Language Network, Washington, D.C., Spring 2011 [link] [Lesson Overview] 

     Teaching Assistant:

• The Future of Globalization: Issues, Actors and Decisions (Master's level, Prof. Lawrence Summers and Robert Lawrence), Harvard University, Fall 2015

• Political Economics (undergraduate, Prof. Andrei Shleifer), Harvard University, Spring 2014 and 2015

  • Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Distinction in Teaching by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard

• Markets and Market Failures (Master's level, Prof. George Borjas), Harvard University, Fall 2013, 2014 and 2015 [website]

  • Awarded the Harvard Kennedy School Dean's Award for Excellence in Student Teaching

• Advanced Regression and Program Evaluation Methods for Policy Analysis (Master's level, Prof. Michael Bailey), Georgetown University, Fall 2010 

• Macroeconomics (Master's level, Prof. Jeffrey Rohaly), Georgetown University, Spring 2011

Selected Publications, Theses and Papers:

• "Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe 2024: Annual Review",  one of the main authors, European Commission - Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, 2024 [link] [pdf]

• "Is Slovakia Still Converging to Richer EU Countries in GDP per Capita at Purchasing Power Parity?", Social Policy Institute, 2023 [link]

  • nominated as one of three finalists for the Civil Servant Act of the Year [link] [video], given annually by the Slovak Governance Institute [link] and the Club of Civil Servants of Good Will [link]

• "'Right' Choice: Restorative Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe," Chinese Political Science Review, 2017 [link]

• "Dimensions of Democracy in Slovakia: The Long View, 1918-2012," September 2016 [link]

• "Performance of political parties in the 2016 parliamentary election in Slovakia: regional comparisons and district-level determinants", Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3, April 2016 [link]

• "ExtremeBounds: Extreme Bounds Analysis in R," Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 72, August 2016 [pdf]

• "TableMaker: An Excel Macro for Publication-Quality Tables", Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 70, April 2016. [link] [pdf]

• "oaxaca: Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition in R" [pdf]

• "A Very Uneven Road: US Labor Markets in the Past 30 Years," with Harry J. Holzer [bio], in Diversity and Disparities, America Enters a New Century (Ed. John Logan) [link], Russell Sage Foundation: New York, 2014 [chapter pdf]

• "An Uneven Road, Then A Cliff: U.S. Labor Markets, 2000-2010," with Harry J. Holzer [bio], [report pdf]

• "Political Ideology and Individual-Level Attitudes Towards Immigration in the European Union: Evidence from the European Values Study, 2008/2009," Master's Thesis, Georgetown University, Georgetown Public Policy Institute [SSRN] [summary maps and tables]

• "Fundamental Tax Reform: The Growth and Utility Effects of a Revenue-Neutral Flat Tax," Undergraduate Thesis, Princeton University, Dept. of Economics, April 2008 [SSRN]

• "Open Access for UK Schools: What Britain Can Learn from Swedish Education Reform," report, Adam Smith Institute, 2007 [pdf]

• stargazer - an R package that creates LaTeX code for well-formatted regression and summary statistics tables [link]

• ExtremeBounds - an R package that performs Extreme Bounds Analysis [link]

• oaxaca - an R package that performs Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions [link]

• TableMaker - a user-friendly interface to create Excel tables [download here] - Note: enable Excel macros when opening

• Hangman [for STATA] [for R] - an adaptation of the classic paper and pencil game; one of the first computer games ever written for these statistical programming languages

• Slovak Election Data Project: [link]

  • results of Slovak parliamentary and presidential elections in format suitable for statistical analysis

• Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA and Moscow, Russia, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 [link]

• United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (Washington, DC), Graduate Fellow, Fall 2010 [link]

• American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (Washington, DC), short-term consulting project (municipal clean energy), Fall 2009 [link]

• Faculty of Economics and Finance, Economics University, Bratislava, Slovakia, January 2024 [link]

• Young Economists' Meeting 2017, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2017 [link]

• St. Gallen Symposium, St. Gallen University, Switzerland, May 2015 [link]

• Young Economists' Meeting 2015, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2015 [link]

• Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 2015 [link]

• Political Economy of International Organizations, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, January 2012 [link]

• Bratislava Economic Meeting 2012, Slovak Economic Association, Bratislava, Slovakia, June 2012 [link]

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Fall Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 2011 [link]

• European Values Study (EVS) Workshop, Vilnius University, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius, Lithuania, June-July 2011 [link]

• Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Economics, Košice, Slovakia, June 2011 [link]

• US2010 Census Project Workshop, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, May 2011 [link]

• Research Fellow, Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava, Slovakia, from August 2015 until March 2024  [link] 

• Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project, Country Expert (Slovakia), University of Notre Dame (USA) / Boston University (USA) / University of Gothenburg (Sweden) / Lund University (Sweden), since 2013 [link]

• Senior Common Room, Leverett House, Harvard University, since 2013 [link]

• Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University, affiliated graduate student, 2012-2017 [link]

• LEAF, TalentGuide, mentoring for talented Slovak high school students, 2014 - 2017 [link]

• Harvard University, Leverett House, Resident Tutor, August 2013 - May 2016 [link]

• Harvard University, Department of Government, Concentration Advisor, Fall 2013 - May 2016 [link]

• Reviewer for the following academic journals: 

  • World Development [link]

  • Party Politics [link]

  • Revista Colombiana de Estadística (Colombian Journal of Statistics) [link]

  • Problems of Post-Communism [link]

  • various analytical and research units of the Slovak government [link]