I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb (EFZG) and Associate Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Centre for Economic Performance, CEP). I am also a CERGE-EI Foundation Career Integration Fellow. I was previously a lecturer at the University of Oxford and post-doc at the London School of Economics. I have a PhD in Economics from the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. 

My research interests are in labour economics, political economy and and the economics of crime (specialising in domestic abuse). Within these topics, I use quantitative methods such as causal inference and text analysis to collect and analyze large administrative datasets and answer policy-relevant questions in social sciences. 

You can contact me on rivandic@net.efzg.hr or r.ivandic@lse.ac.uk and follow me on Twitter or Bluesky.  

NEWS:

• "Parenthood and the career ladder: evidence from academia" available as a Centre for Economic Performance (LSE)  working paper and Berlin School of Economics working paper

• Our paper on "The Role of Exposure in Domestic Abuse Victimization: Evidence from the COVID-19 Lockdown" is being published in Economica in January 2026

• Watch my TEDx talk on intimate partner violence here

• I'm working on a project on domestic abuse in Croatia funded by the British Academy for which I've been collecting novel administrative data. You can access this data here and contact me for more information.