Lídia Farré

Lídia Farré is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), an Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and the Program Director of the BSE Master’s Program in Economics of Public Policy.

She is also a Research Fellow of the Rockwool Foundation and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

Professor Farré’s research interests are in the field of Labor and Public Economics with a particular focus on Gender Economics. She has published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others.

She is Associated Editor of SERIEs – The Journal of the Spanish Economic Association and leads several research projects related to gender in the labor market financed by different institutions such as La Caixa and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Currently, she is a member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Economic Association (AEE) and the Advisory Council of the Catalan Economic Society. She is also a member of CEMFI’s Research Ethics Committee.

Professor Farré serves on the Advisory Council on Economic Affairs of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and on the Council Board of Ivàlua, the Catalan Institute for Public Policy Evaluation.

In 2022, she served as the president of COSME, the subcommittee of the Spanish Economic Association that is in charge of evaluating and promoting the situation of women in the Economics profession.

Lídia Farré holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI).