Forskning

Elena's research interests lie in the fields of labor and education economics, in particular labor market access and competition, the design of study aid to tertiary education, and the determinants and consequences of school choice. Elena's research combines register and survey data with applied econometrics methods, including estimation of structural models.

Read more about Elena's research on her personal page https://sites.google.com/site/elenamattana/research

Profil

Elena Mattana is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University and a Fellow of the TrygFonden Child Research Centre. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics (2013). After holding postdoctoral positions at the Université Catholique de Louvain (CORE) and the University of Chicago, Elena joined Aarhus University in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.

Undervisning

Currently teaching:

Macroeconomics (BA ECON)

(Advanced) Applied Microeconometrics (MA ECON, PhD ECON)

Research Frontiers in Economics (PhD ECON)

Arbejdsområder

I am an organizer of the TrygFonden Child Research Centre's Seminar Series and a member of the steering committee of ECONAU, the department's data resource for register-based research.