About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) funded by a grant of the Fundación Ramón Areces. 

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (remotely), under the supervision of Prof. Michela Giorcelli. I also visited  the Department of Economics of the University of Sao Paulo  (USP) and the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas  (FGV)  in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

I hold a PhD in Economics from Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).
My PhD was funded by the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). During the academic year 2022-2023, I was visiting scholar at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson School of Management. 

You can find my CV here

Research interests

Political economy,  family economics, economic history and development economics. 

Contact

You can contact me at gaia.spolverini@unavarra.es / gaiaspolverini@libero.it