Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University, 1999) is Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (Queens College and The Graduate Center), Distinguished Researcher at the Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) at the Universitat de Barcelona, Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar (2023-24), IZA Research Fellow (since 2004), and CESIfo Research Fellow (since 2024).

Her research spans across three topics: (1) Policies, and Institutions in Labor and Education Economics; (2) Social Norms and Behavioral Decisions; and (3) Public Health.  

Since 2019, she has received $3.06 million US dollars in research funding as PI. Ranked top 2.4% of economists in the last 10 years (IDEAS RePEC), top 10% (#645 on 05/2024) by both total new and all-time downloads (SSRN).  As of 05/2024, she has 4,007 google scholar citations, an h-index of 29, and an i10-index of 44.

Núria has held visiting positions at Barnard College at Columbia University (2020-2022); and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (2012-2013). Prior to moving to NYC, she was Research Fellow at IZA (2012-2015); Assistant Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2004-2012); Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (2007-2012); Economist at Mathematica Policy Research (2000-2004), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1998-2000); and Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-1998).