Matija Kovacic

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

I work as a researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Unit S3 - Science for Modelling, Monitoring and Evaluation.

I received my PhD from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 2013, Doctor Europeaeus in Economics.

Areas: Applied Microeconomics, Microeconometrics, Population Economics, Comparative Development.

Topics: Individual and social preferences, Immigration, Inequality of opportunity, Inter-generational mobility, Cultural and historical roots of preferences, Health economics.

National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor ("ASN"): disciplinary field of 13/A1 - Economics (exp 12/2034); disciplinary field of 13/A2 - Economic policy (exp 12/2034).

Contact information: matija.kovacic@ec.europa.eu; matija.kovacic@unive.it

Websites: Matija Kovacic – Google Scholar (Google Scholar); KOVACIC Matija - Unive (Ca' Foscari); https://glabor.org/user/matija.kovacic/ (GLO)

📑Recent Findings:

Loneliness is bad for your health and it doesn't happen by chance - it has deep historical roots. Read more: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.06.011
Sexual minorities in Europe: poorer in health and more isolated than peers. Read more: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/04/10/sexual-minorities-in-europe-poorer-in-health/
Online health information seeking is not always good. Read more: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.02.032
Patience is good for tolerance! Read more: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00947-z
Would you argue that the language you speak may inuence the way you perceive risk? Read more: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.59.2.0119-9999R2