research fellow
Short Bio
Anna Lovasz is a junior researcher at the Institute of Economics of the HAS. Her research interests include: labor economics, discrimination, applied micro-econometrics, industrial organization. She started her university studies in Economics at the Corvinus University (formerly University of Economic Sciences of Budapest) in 1998, and continued at the University of Washington from 2000, where she received her Master of Science degree in 2005. Her fields of specialization were labor economics, applied econometrics, and natural resource economics. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2008. Her dissertation studied the effect of increased competition ont he gender wage gap in Hungary following the transition. Before joining the Institute, she worked as a research assistant at the Labor Project of the Central European University for two years.