Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Research Assistant

Staff member since March 2007 (60%), Dr. oec. publ., Focus: research evaluation and VET research.

Professional Career

• Research Assistant at the Swiss Coordination Center for Research in Education SKBF|CSRE
• 2002 - 2006: Research Assistant at the Statistics and Empirical Economics Research Group, Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zurich

Studies

• 2006: Dr. oec. publ., Applied Microeconometrics, University of Zurich
• 2000: Licentiate Economics, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• New estimation of private returns to higher professional education and training, Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 3(2), 71-84, 2011. 
• Eine höhere Berufsbildung rentiert durchaus, Panorama 6, 16-17, 2011 (with S.C. Wolter).
• Der individuelle Ertrag einer höheren Berufsbildung, Die Volkswirtschaft 12, 2011, 63-66 (with S.C. Wolter). 
• Individual Policy Preferences for Vocational versus Academic Education. Micro Level Evidence for the Case of Switzerland, Journal of European Social Policy 21 (3), 253-273, 2011 (with M.R. Busemeyer und S.C. Wolter).
• PISA and the transition into the labour market, LABOUR Special Issue, 23 (s1), pp. 111-137 (with K. Bertschy and S.C. Wolter).
• Are the elderly a threat to educational expenditures?, European Journal of Political Economy,  25 (2) , pp.  225-236 (with S.C. Wolter)
• Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions, Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(3), pp. 457-477 (with R. Lalive).
• Earnings Differentials between French and German Speakers in Switzerland, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 141, 191-212 (with R. Winkelmann).
• The Apple Falls Increasingly Far: Parent-Child Correlation in Schooling and The Growth of Post-Secondary Education in Switzerland, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 143, 133-154 (with R. Winkelmann and S. Hanslin).