Degree                   Field                           Institution                                                                 Year

Ph.D.                     Economics                  University of Minnesota (U.S.A.)                              2006

M.A.                      Economics                  McGill University (Canada)                                       2000

B.A.                      Economics                  Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)             1999

Aug.2018 – present             Part-Time Lecturer in Economics, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia,
                                             Athens, GA, U.S.A

Sept.2011 – May 2018         Assistant Professor, Economics, Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa, 

                                             Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.

Feb. 2009 – present             Researcher, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland, U.K.

Jan.  2010 – 2012               Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) with Tenure, Economics Division, University of Southampton, U.K. 

Jan.  2010 & Apr. 2010         Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

Sept. 2009 – Jan.  2010       Visiting Scholar, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, U.S.A.

Sept. 2006 – Nov. 2009        Lecturer (Assistant Prof.), Economics Division, University of Southampton, U.K. 

Aug. 2009                           Visiting Scholar, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

May 2002 – Aug. 2006         Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Sept. 2003 – Aug. 2006        Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
 
                                              Minnesota, U.S.A. (Professor Larry Jones)

June 2002 – June  2003       Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

                                              Minnesota, U.S.A. (Professor Thomas Holmes) 

Sept. 2000 – May  2002       Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

     
     2018              2018 Tippie College of Business Innovation in Teaching Award, Iowa, USA

     2011              Travel Grant, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland

     2011              25% Teaching Buyout, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland

     2010              Travel Grant, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland

     2010              25% Teaching Buyout, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland

     2009              Travel Grant, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland

     2009              25% Teaching Buyout, ESRC Centre for Population Change, Southampton-Scotland

     2008              Small Grant Scheme, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton

     2007              Small Grant Scheme, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton

     2006-2008      Research Grant, Economics Division, University of Southampton

     2004-2005      Heller Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

     Summer 2002 Prescott Summer Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

     1999              Fellowship, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

     1999              Best Bachelor’s Thesis, Alumni Association, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Internal Service

Elected Faculty Council, Tippie College of Business, Member, 2017-2018

Diversity Committee, Tippie College of Business, Member, 2014-2015

PhD Revamp Committee, Department of Economics, Member, 2013-2015

Elected Faculty Council, Tippie College of Business, Vice Chair, 2013-2014

Elected Faculty Council, Tippie College of Business, Member, 2012-2013

Tow Seminar Committee, Department of Economics, Member, 2011-2013

Service to the Profession

Local Organizer, Conference on Demographic Economics, May 2014, Iowa City, Iowa

Program Committee Member, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings 2014, Toronto, Canada

Program Committee Member, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings 2013, Seoul, South Korea

Program Committee Member, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings 2012, Limassol, Cyprus

Program Committee Member, Society for Social Politics Meetings 2011

Scientific Committee Member, OLG days 2011, Vielsalm, Belgium 

Program Committee Member, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings 2011, Ghent, Belgium

Program Committee Member, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings 2010, Montreal, Canada

Founding Member of the ESRC Centre for Population Change

 
“Parental Childcare During and Outside of Typical Work Hours,” 2018, Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 453-476, June 2018.

 “Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Shocks in Dynastic Models,” 2016, (with Larry Jones), Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 22, pp. 157-178, October 2016.           

“Gender Gaps in Completed Fertility,” (with Erica Field, Vera Molitor and Michèle Tertilt), Journal of Demographic Economics, Vol. 82, Issue 2, pp. 167-206, June 2016.

 “Property Rights and Efficiency in OLG models with endogenous fertility,” (with Michèle Tertilt), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 150, Pages 551-583, March 2014.

“An Accounting Exercise for the Shift in Life-Cycle Employment Profiles of Married Women Born Between 1940 and 1960,” (with Sébastien Buttet), Journal for Labor Market Research, Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 253-271, September 2013.

“Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models,” (with Larry Jones),  International Economic Review, Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 671-699, Aug. 2010.

“Fertility Theories: Can they explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?” (with Larry Jones and Michèle Tertilt), Demography and the Economy, John B. Shoven, editor, University of Chicago Press, January 2011.