Andrea Weber is an applied labor economist and currently a professor at the

Central European University Central European University (CEU) is a private research university accredited in Austria, Hungary, and the United States, with campuses in Vienna and Budapest. The university is known for its highly intensive programs in the social science ...

. She is a co-editor of the

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. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics and a fellow at the CEPR.

Career and education

She obtained her PhD from the

Vienna University of Technology TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

and an MA in Mathematics from the same university. Before joining the CEU, she was a professor at

Vienna University of Economics and Business The Vienna University of Economics and Business (german: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, WU) is a public research university in Vienna, Austria, the largest university focusing on business, management and economics in Europe. It has been ranked a ...

and the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

and was a visiting assistant professor at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. In 2016 she became a member of the

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founde ...

Research

Weber's research mainly focuses on labor economics and applied

econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

. Her work has been cited 5880 times according to

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. She has published papers in the

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, the American Economic Review and the

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. Her research has been featured in

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, Vox,

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and

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Selected bibliography

* Card, David; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea (2010). "Active Labour Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis*". The Economic Journal. 120 (548): F452–F477. * Chetty, Raj; Guren, Adam; Manoli, Day; Weber, Andrea (2011). "Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins". American Economic Review. 101 (3): 471–475. * Card, David; Chetty, Raj; Weber, Andrea (2007-11-01). "Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 122 (4): 1511–1560. * Card, David; Chetty, Raj; Weber, Andrea (2007). "The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?". American Economic Review. 97 (2): 113–118. * Card, David; Lee, David S.; Pei, Zhuan; Weber, Andrea (2015). "Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design". Econometrica. 83 (6): 2453–2483.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Andrea Living people Academic staff of Central European University Austrian women economists TU Wien alumni Academic staff of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Academic staff of the University of Mannheim Austrian economists Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the European Economic Association Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina