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Lara Lebedinski, PhD

Senior research associate

research fields

  • Labor Economics
  • Education Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Public Policy Analysis

education

  • PhD in Economics 2012 / Bocconi University, Italy
  • Master in Economics 2017 / University of Manchtester, Great Britain
  • Master in economics and infomation science 2006 / Technical University of Vienna, Austria

previous employment

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, 2022 - 2025
  • Institute of Economic Sciences, 2017 - 2022
  • Ministry of education, science and technological development, 2015 - 2017
  • Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2012 - 2014

references/bibliography

Vladisavljević M., Lebedinski L. Left behind in Covid times: the impact of the pandemic on job loss and job finding rates of vulnerable groups in Serbia, Applied Economic Analysis, 31 (93), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEA-02-2023-0063

Lebedinski L., Perugini C. and Vladisavljević M. Child penalty in Russia: Evidence from an event study, Review of Economics of the Household, 21 (1), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-022-09604-y

Battaglia M., Lebedinski L., With a little help from my friends: Medium-term effects of a remedial education program targeting Roma minority, Economics of Education Review 86, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102196

Battaglia M., Chabé-Ferret B., Lebedinski L. Segregation, Fertility and Son Preference: The Case of the Roma in Serbia, Journal of Demographic Economics, 87(2), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2020.8

Lebedinski L. The Effect of Residential Segregation on Formal and Informal Employment of Roma in Serbia, Eastern European Economics, 58(2), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2019.1689143

Battaglia M., Lebedinski L. The curse of low expectations: Remedial education and perceived returns to education of Roma people, Economics of Transition, 25(4), 2017. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12134

Žarković Rakić J., Aleksić Mirić., Lebedinski L., Vladisavljević M. Welfare State and Social Enterprises in Transition: Evidence from Serbia, Voluntas, 28(6), 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-017-9844-2

Battaglia M., Lebedinski L. Equal Access to Education: An Evaluation of the Roma Teaching Assistant Programme, World Development, 76, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.06.009

Lebedinski L., Vandenberghe V. Assessing Education’s Contribution to Productivity Using Firm Level Evidence, International Journal of Manpower, 35(8), 2014. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-06-2012-0090

selected projects

Technical support Implementation of Basic Income Guarantee for marginalized households (2023 - 2025), commissioned by: World Bank, member of the project team

Evaluation of the Retraining Program for the IT Sector in 2019 and 2020-2021 (2022), commissioned: UNDP, lead researcher

Evaluation of socio-economic effects of the social services and employability measures provided to vulnerable population groups in Serbia - Survey for module indicator 2, (2022-2023), commissioned by: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, team lead

Social Stability in Serbia Challenged? Pandemics, Economic losses, Inequality and Policy Responses – INEQ RS, (2021-2022), commissioned by: Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, member of the research team

Randomised control trial of a parenting program (2020-2021), commissioned by: World Bank, member of the research team

Analysis of internship programs with employers in the public and private sectors (2020-2021), commissioned by: Team for Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction, Government of the Republic of Serbia, team leader

Feasibility study of public-private partnership in preschool education (2019-2020), commissioned by: UNICEF, member of the research team

Follow-up impact evaluation of an active labour market program targeting Roma youth (2020), commissioned by: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, lead researcher

Impact evaluation of two programs targeting youth employment (2017-2020), commissioned by: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, member of the research team

Evaluation of the Retraining Program for the IT Sector (2019), commissioned by: UNDP, principal investigator

Future of work and skills report (2018), commissioned by: European Training Foundation, member of the research team

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