I am an applied microeconomist and am mainly interested in the interaction of social safety net programs with labor markets.
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at CERGE-EI. During my PhD years, I visited the University of Chicago (invited by D. Black), the Institute for Employment Research (M.Moritz), and the Dutch National Bank (C. Biesenbeek & M. Mastrogiacomo).
CV: access here
E-mail: sona.badalyan.v@gmail.com ; sona.badalyan@cerge-ei.cz
Research
"Firm Response to Raising Women's Retirement Age"
Awards: 1st prize at the Young Economists Seminar (Croatian National Bank)
Presented at: EWMES (scheduled); IAB Brown Bag Seminar; IAB DiskAB; EALE; IZA Summer School; ESPE; Dutch National Bank; Young Economists Seminar (Croatian National Bank); SITES; AIEL; CERGE-EI Brown Bag Seminar; Student Workshop at Harris School of Public Policy at UChicago; BSE Summer School; Armenian Economic Association annual meeting
"Coordinated Retirement Decisions with Firms: The Role of Worker Substitutability"
[draft available upon request]
Presented at: AIEL
"Disclosure Discrimination: An Experiment Focusing on Communication in the Hiring Process"
(with D.Korlyakova & R.Rehák)
Presented at: pregame in the team of John List at UChicago
"Coworker Peer Effects in Retirement"
[in coding stage]
Presented at: CERGE-EI Applied student lunch
“Household Shocks and Children’s Labor Market Outcomes”
(with C. Biesenbeek & M. Mastrogiacomo)
[in coding stage]