ERIKA DESERRANNO LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE Placement Officer: Placement Assistant: Professor Leonardo Felli Mr John Curtis Department of Economics +44 (0)20 7955 7525 +44 (0)20 7955 7545 [email protected] [email protected] OFFICE ADDRESS, TELEPHONE & E-MAIL: STICERD, Houghton Street, London WC2A AE, +44(0)7723865672 [email protected] GENDER: F CITIZENSHIP: Belgian, Italian PRE-DOCTORAL STUDIES: 2009-2011 MRes Economics, London School of Economics, with Distinction 2006-2008 MSc Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, with Summa Cum Laude 2003-2006 BSc Business Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Business School, with Distinction DOCTORAL STUDIES: 2011 – present Ph.D. Economics, London School of Economics. Expected completion date: June 2015 THESIS ADVISOR AND REFERENCES: Professor Oriana Bandiera (Advisor) Department of Economics London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE [email protected] Tel. (44-20) 7955-7519 Fax (44-20) 7831-1840 Professor Robin Burgess Department of Economics London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE [email protected] Tel. (44-20) 7955-6676 Fax (44-20) 7831-1840 Dr. Johannes Spinnewijn Department of Economics London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE [email protected] Tel. (44-20) 7955-7022 Fax (44-20) 7831-1840 1 ERIKA DESERRANNO DESIRED TEACHING AND RESEARCH: Primary Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Organizational Economics TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2013-2015 LSE Teaching Fellow, EC455 Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis (graduate) 2012-2014 LSE EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics (graduate) 2012-2013 LSE Teaching Assistant, EC102 Economics B (undergraduate) 2011-2012 LSE Teaching Assistant, EC 333 Applied Econometrics (undergraduate) 2010-2011 LSE Teaching Assistant, EC102 Economics B (undergraduate) 2008-2009 Bocconi University, Teaching Assistant, 30029 Microeconomics II (undergraduate) RELEVANT POSITIONS HELD: 2012 Research Assistant for Dr. Greg Fischer, Prof. Dean Karlan, Dr. Margaret McConnell 2012 Consultant, AVSI South Sudan 2008-2009 Research Assistant for Prof. Eliana La Ferrara Summer 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005: Internships at the European Commission (DG Development), Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC-CTB), Belgian Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGCD) LANGUAGES Basic Spoken Spanish Fluent Spoken English, Italian, French Basic Written Spanish Fluent Written English, Italian, French HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2014 Best Paper Award on Public Organizations, Unicredit 2013-2015 Teaching Fellowship, LSE 2009-2013 Department of Economics Scholarship, LSE 2009-2013 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Quota Award 2010-2011 Unicredit, Giovanna Crivelli Scholarship 2009-2010 Marco Fanno Scholarship 2008 Best Master Thesis Award, Fondazione Franceschi 2 ERIKA DESERRANNO COMPLETED PAPERS: Job Market Paper: “Financial incentives as signals: Experimental evidence from the recruitment of health workers”, Working Paper, October 2014 I study the role of financial incentives as signals of job attributes when these are unknown to potential applicants. I create experimental variation in expected earnings and use it to estimate the effect of financial incentives on the size and composition of the applicant pool for a newly created health worker position in Uganda. I find that more lucrative positions are perceived as entailing a lower positive externality for the community, and discourage agents with strong pro-social preferences to apply. While higher financial incentives attract a larger number of applicants, and help the recruiter fill vacancies, they hamper retention by reducing the ability to recruit the most socially motivated agents, who are found to stay longer on the job. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: “Women farmers and barriers to technology adoption: A randomized evaluation of BRAC’s extension program in rural Uganda”, joint with Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman “Does selection of leaders matter for the functioning of community groups? Direct democracy vs. appointment by local elite. Experimental evidence from Uganda”, joint with Miri Stryjan, Munshi Sulaiman CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Dec 2014 EEDEC Symposium on Economic Experiments in Development Countries, Bergen Dec 2014 ES European Winter Meeting, Madrid Nov 2014 NEUDC, Boston Oct 2014 Conference for Ph.D and post-doctoral researchers in development economics, Oxford Sep 2014 Workshop in Public Organizations, Vienna July 2014 Applied Economics Workshop, Petralia June 2014 Workshop in Development Economics, Ascea 3