Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
CRISTINA ELISA ORSO
January 2015
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Date of Birth: 03/26/1981
Place of birth: Tortona (AL), Italy.
Nationality: Italian
AFFILIATION:
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Dipartimento di Economia
Università Ca’ Foscari, San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873,
30121 Venezia, Italy
Room: 43
Phone: +39 0412349105
Mobile: +39 3936392022
E-mail: [email protected]
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Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza e Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali,
Università del Piemonte Orientale, via Cavour, 84
15100 Alessandria, Italy.
Phone : +39 0131283837
Fax: +39 0131283704
E-mail: [email protected]
CURRENT POSITION:
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SHARE Post-doctoral Researcher, Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Development Economics, Gender Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Ageing, Policy
Evaluations.
EDUCATION:
2013
Ph.D in Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.
Ph.D Supervisors: Prof. Gilberto Turati, Prof.ssa Mariacristina Piva.
Dissertation title: “Three Essays on Microcredit and Poverty”
2009
“Laurea Specialistica” in Economics and Public Policy, Università del Piemonte Orientale
“A. Avogadro”, Alessandria, Italy. Final mark 110/110 cum laude, print worthy.
Dissertation title: “Asimmetrie Informative e Microcredito”.
Advisor: Prof. Mario Ferrero.
Subject: Microeconomics.
2005
“Laurea triennale” in Economics and Finance, Università del Piemonte Orientale “A.
Avogadro”, Alessandria, Italy. Final mark 110/110 cum laude.
Dissertation title: “L’andamento della disoccupazione in Piemonte raffrontato con quello
italiano nell’ultimo decennio”.
Advisor: Prof. Guido Ortona.
Subject: Labor Economics.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2008
Teaching Assistant for Quantitative Methods in Economics (graduate),
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria.
2011
Instructor, Economics (undergraduate), Università del Piemonte
Orientale, Alessandria.
2011 - 2013
Teaching Assistant for Advanced Microeconomics (graduate), Università del Piemonte
Orientale, Alessandria.
2014
Instructor, Summer Institute of Ageing, Venice International University.
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS:
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Ph.D. Scholarship, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, (2009-2012)
Research Fellowship, Università del Piemonte Orientale, (January – March 2013)
Research Fellowship, Università Ca’Foscari (April 2013- March 2014)
SHARE Research Fellowship, Università Ca’Foscari (April 2014- March 2015)
Research Grant from AIES and Farmafactoring Foundation (November 2013)
VISITING EXPERIENCES:
2012
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics and Business and Barcelona Graduate
School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona – Spain.
2014
Visiting Post-Doc at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona – Spain.
FURTHER EDUCATION
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2015
Tenth Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory: Diversity, Fairness
and Well-Being, University of Verona (Alba di Canazei), Verona (IT)
2013
Microeconometric Summer School, Dynamic and Non-linear Panel Data Models,
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).
2013
Summer Institute of Ageing, Venice International University.
2011
Microeconometric Summer School , Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation,
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2001 – 2008 Work as accountant at the “Studio Commerciale Zacco Dott. Fabrizio”, Novi Ligure (AL), Italy.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS :
Oct -2011
Doctoral Seminar, Doctoral School of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore (Italy). Paper presented: “Microcredit and poverty reduction: a
critical exploration”.
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March-2012
Doctoral Seminar, Doctoral School of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore (Italy). Paper presented: “Microcredit and women’s empowerment:
a Bayesian latent variable model for the analysis of Bangladesh data.”
Sept – 2012
Doctoral Seminar, Doctoral School of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore (Italy). Paper presented: “Intimate partner violence, women’s
attitudes towards violence and microcredit participation: evidence from Bangladesh DHS 2007.”
March–2013
POLIS seminar, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria. Paper presented:
“Microcredit and women’s empowerment: a Bayesian latent variable model for the analysis of
Bangladesh data.”
Oct -2014
Italian Health Economics Association, Annual Conference, Venice. Paper
presented: “Explaining Inequalities in the Use of Home Care Services among Elderly: a European
Macro-area analysis”.
Nov -2014
SHARE wave 5 Conference, Turin. Paper presented: “The driving factors of inequalities in the
utilization of health care services among Elderly: a European macro-area analysis”.
LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS:
Languages: Italian, mother tongue
English, fluent
Spanish, fluent
French, basic
Software: Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, Openbugs, GAMS, STATA, Scientific WorkPlace.
PUBLICATIONS:
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“Non-Randomized versus Randomized approach in microcredit program evaluations: Evidence from
Asian countries”, submitted.
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“The determinants of women’s empowerment in Bangladesh: the role of partner’s attitudes and
participation in microcredit programs”, Revise and resubmit in Journal of Development Studies.
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“Intimate partner violence, attitudes towards violence and microcredit participation: Evidence from the
Bangladesh DHS 2007.” (preparing to submit).
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Working Papers:
1. “Formal and informal sector: interactions between moneylenders and traditional banks in the
rural Indian credit market” (2009), Working paper n. 151, Department of Public Policy
and Public Choice– POLIS.
2. “Dalla carità al business: prospettive di microcredito e microfinanza nei Paesi in via di sviluppo”(2009),
Electronic Journal of Management, Department of Business Economics, Università di Genova.
3. “Microcredit and poverty. An overview of the principal statistical methods used to measure the program
net impacts” (2011), Working Paper n.180, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.
4. “Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh: a structural equation model for categorical
observed variables.” (with Enrico Fabrizi) (2013), DISCE, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze
Economiche e Sociali, Working Paper n.1396, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
5. “Eligibility and inclusiveness of Long-Term Care Institutional frameworks in Europe: a cross-country
comparison” (with Ludovico Carrino) (2014), Working Paper n. 28, Department of Economics, Ca’
Foscari University of Venice.
WORK IN PROGRESS
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“Explaining Inequalities in the use of home care services among elderly: a European macroarea analysis”
with Cinzia Di Novi and Vincenzo Carrieri.
(Research Project funded by Farmafactoring Foundation).
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“Demand of Long-term care and benefit eligibility across European countries” with Ludovico Carrino
and Giacomo Pasini.
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“Domestic violence and labor force participation in Spain” with Libertad Gonzaleg (Pompeu Fabra
University)
Venezia, January 25th, 2015.
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