Rigissa Megalokonomou
Assoc. Prof. in Economics
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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. I obtained my PhD in 2016 from the Department of Economics, at the University of Warwick. I am also a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, a Research Fellow at IZA, and a Research Affiliate at CESifo and the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Life Course Centre.
My research is in applied micro-economics, focusing on policy-relevant questions in education, migration and labor economics.
My research has been published at the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Human Resources, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, etc.
My research niche relates to the use of novel, often self-collected, data to answer questions that are original, causal and policy-relevant in applied microeconomics. I have undertaken massive data collections.
In Nov. 2024 I was awarded an Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant (AUD $498,891--- 3 years funding) on my project: “Women in STEM: The Longer-Term Effects of Teachers” (sole CI DP)
I am an Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics and an Associate Editor for the journal of the Economic Society of Australia: Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy and Economic Record.