I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), where I conduct research on my project #Leave4NextGen funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme.

I am also an Assistant Professor (visiting) in the Department of Economics at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain).

Previously, I was a Post Doctoral fellow at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES). 

I completed my PhD in Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), within the Dulbea.

I have been appointed as a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization.

I am an applied economist with particular interest in the fields of labor, public and health economics. 

Contact:

• Email: sebastien.fontenay@uah.es / sebastien.fontenay@ulb.be

• Twitter: @FontenaySbasti1

• Plaza de la Victoria 2, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid

• Office: 1.25 (Colegio de Mínimos)

• Phone: +34.918.85.42.28

Presentations of my research:

• Forthcoming: DG-ECFIN Workshop on Gender Economics, Online (12 Mar. 2024), ROA seminar, Maastricht University (9 Apr. 2024); American University, Washington (online, 16 Apr. 2024); SEHO, Singapore (28 May 2024); EALE, Bergen (5 Sep. 2024).

• Past: Applied Lunch Seminar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Nov. 2023); Development Economics Workshop, Universitat de Barcelona (Oct. 2023); ROA PhD Day, Maastricht University, Online (Sept. 2023); European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Belgrade (Jun. 2023); ADE, Louvain-la-Neuve (Jun. 2023); ECARES, Brussels (May. 2023); Household Economics Gathering, Brussels (Dec.2022); Belgian Day of Labor Economists, Brussels (Oct. 2022); University of Alcalá (Sep. 2022); Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet (LAGV), Marseille (June 2022); Arne Ryde Workshop on Gender and Family Wellbeing, Lund (May 2022); SOLE annual meeting, Minneapolis, (May 2022); Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Braga (April, 2022); Royal Economic Society Annual Meeting, Online (April 2022); Public Economics WiP seminar, London School of Economics, STICERD (Feb. 2022).