Policy Work

Recent Activities (includes forthcoming activities)

11/21/2025  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at Cornella Creacio.

10/27/2025  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at the Rockwool Foundation in Copenhagen (host Miriam Gensowski  and Mikkel Mertz).

10/1 - 10/2/2025  –  2st  workshop on understanding factors driving violence against women and the impact of policies aimed at reducing such violence in Barcelona, Spain.  

06/9-06/10.2025  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will participate in the Workshop on policy options for reducing IPV and sexual assault, co-sponsored by UN Women, the World Bank, and the Prevention Collaborative. The event will take place in Washington DC. Organizers include Rachael Pierotti from World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, and  Lori Heise and Ruti Levtov from the Prevention Collaborative.

05/29-05/30 /2025 –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will attend the Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars (WEC Junior), funded by Arnold Ventures. The seminar will take place at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Núria will discuss the paper “As time goes by’ The effectiveness of protection orders in reducing intimate partner violence recidivism” by Marti Rovira (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 

05/16/2025  –   Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)  co-organizes with the OECD the 1st workshop on What Works to Stop Violence Against Women? Causal Evidence, Real World Impact at OECD Paris headquarters. Funded by @ERC Advanced Grant, WomEmpower.

02/28/2025  –  NYU and UCLA will host an all-day symposium titled “The Earned Income Tax Credit at Fifty” at NYU School of Law. Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will be a member of the Panel on the "Short- and Long-Term Effects of the EITC" with Hilary Hoynes (Berkeley), Henrik Kleven (Princeton), Anne Alstott (Yale Law School), and Dylan Matthews (Vox), and Jennifer Roff (CUNY, Queens College and The Graduate Center). The symposium will include a keynote speech by Bob Greenstein, the founder and President Emeritus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 

11/18/2024  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) attended the Consejo Asesor de Brecha de Género at the Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones  as a member of the committee. We brainstormed on better ways to serve victims and minimize victimization and gender gaps. Link to the news report, here.

11/13/2024  -  11/15/2024 -  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)  visited the International Labor Organization as a member of the Research Review Group. She provided feedback on World Employment and Social Outlook report, Lifelong Learning Skills Flagship Report, and State of Social Justice Report.

7/01/2024   –  The Consejo Asesor de Brecha de Género at the Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones  was created today and had its first meeting. Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) was nominated as one of its members.  She will assist the Spanish Government in building policies that reduce gender gaps in Spain.  You can read about the other members of the committee in Spanish here.  

Professional Experience

2024-2026   Member of Gender Gap Advisory Council of the Department of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration of Spain (Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones, MISSM).

2023-2024   Technical expert in the Research Review Group, International Labour Organization (ILO), Research Department.

2023-2024   Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellow. Low-Income and Minority Students’ Higher Education in a Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from CUNY, the Public University System in New York City. 

2018-2019   Ambassador for Barcelona, City of Science.

2016-2019   Elected Executive Committee Member of the European Association of Labour Economics (EALE)

2012-2023   Managing Editor, IZA Journal of Labor Policy

2005-2006  Research grant, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities.  “Evaluating Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Active Social Policy and Active Labor Market Policy on Inclusion”, VS/2005/0687, Núria Rodríguez-Planas 

(Co-Principal Investigator: Hannu Kauppi from Department of Labor, Finland, and Jochen Kluve from RWI-Essen, Germany). 

2004-2010 Consultant for the Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Català de les Dones. Wrote a book on Gender Mainstreaming in the   Budget published and taught gender budgeting to civil servants in Catalunya, Spain, during the period 2006-2010 

2000-2004   Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC

1998-2000   Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC

1997-1998   Brookings Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies, Washington, DC. Recipient of the Leo Model Fellowship.