Professor at the University of Nottingham, Department of Economics. Affiliated researcher at CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and external research associate at CAGE (Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy). Deputy Director of the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Policy Research (NICEP).
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from 13th of March to 2nd of May
Inviting Professor: Cédric Chambru
Biography
Valeria Rueda is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Nottingham. She was a student of the École Normale Supérieure at the Department of Social Sciences, on Ulm street, from 2007 to 2012, and went on to study at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), where she obtained a Master's degree in Economic analysis and policy. She continued her academic career at Harvard University, where she graduated from the Department of Economics. She obtained her PhD in Economics after defending her thesis at Science Po, in 2016, under the supervision of Yann Algan: ‘Les temps changent-ils? Essays on the persistence of the effects of religion, investment and cultural origins on economic and social behaviour at local level’. Today, Valeria Rueda specialises in economic history, political economy and development economics, with a strong interest in gender issues.
Collaboration with the CERGIC
Valeria Rueda's stay at the CERGIC will bring added value in many ways, starting with her work in quantitative history and gender issues, which will be of great benefit to doctoral students, post-doctoral students and permanent members studying related topics. These include Cédric Chambru and Jean-Pascal Bassino on quantitative history, Sophie Hatte and Elisa Mougin on gender issues, and Mathieu Couttenier on the role of natural resources in local economic development.
At the same time, Valeria will be actively involved in scientific activities on the campus: external seminars, internal seminars and doctoral seminars. She will be presenting a recent paper at an internal seminar and will be giving a talk to students in the Master in Economics programme to introduce them to her research.
Valeria will be accompanied by her partner, Guillaume Wilemme (PhD thesis defended in 2016), who works on the labour market and urban economics. He too will bring added value to the CERGIC with his econometric approach, which complements the methods currently used in the laboratory.
Major publications and works
Publications
- "Gender Difference in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market with work with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini, Economic Journal, 133 (655), 2676-2708, 2023.
- “Internal borders and population geography in the unification of Italy” with Brian A’Hearn, Journal of Economic History, 83(3), 747-784, 2023.
- “Notre Taxe de Paris: Tax expenditures with two public goods” (2024) with Guillaume Wilemme, Revue Économique, 74, 1053-1065.
- “Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa,” with Philip Roessler and Yannick Pengl, American Political Science Review, 116(1), 181-199, 2022.
- “Sex and the mission: The conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa,” with Julia Cagé, Journal of Demographic Economics, 86(3), 213-257, 2020.
- “The long-term effects of the printing press in sub-Saharan Africa,” with Julia Cagé, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(3), 69-99, joint with Julia Cagé, 2016.
Works
- “Evaluating the Long-Term impact of Christian Missions” in The Economics of Religion, Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Publishing Co, 2023.
- “Does it really matter how different we are? Ancestry distances and income in the USA”, forthcoming in the World Scientific Encyclopaedia of Global Migration, Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World
Scientific Publishing Co. - “The devil is in the detail: Christian missions’ heterogeneous effect on development in sub-Saharan Africa.” in The Long-Term Economic and Political Shadow of History, vol. 2, eds. Michalopoulos and Papaioannou, CEPR press (2016), joint with Julia Cagé.