Natalia Montinari

She received her PhD in Economics and Management in 2011, University of Padua (Italy). She was post-doc at the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Germany, 2011-13) and she was Assistant Professor at Lund University (Sweden, 2013-16).
Her research focuses on the emergence of the early gender wage gap in the labor market, the impact of social norms in defining the career choices of men and women and the short and long-term effects associated to the introduction of affirmative actions. In the past she studied how monetary and non-monetary incentive interact with the heterogeneity of individual preferences. She mainly applies the methodology of experimental economics. The results of the research activity have been published in international journals, including European Economic Review, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economics, Organization and Behavior, Journal of Economic Psychology, PlosOne. She is Associate Aditor of the Italian Economic Journal.