Silvia Peracchi

Silvia Peracchi is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and Social Research (IRES) of UCLouvain, with previous postdoctoral experience at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Luxembourg in 2022. Her research focuses on migration economics, causal inference methods, and spatial data analysis.

Her core research investigates:

• Determinants of cross-border labor mobility in European contexts
• Media representation of migration crises and policy impacts
• International drivers of asylum policies and processing times
• Ancestral diversity effects on economic outcomes

She actively contributes to the 'Road to Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa' project examining infrastructure impacts, and co-leads the CROHOUSINQ initiative studying housing market effects on cross-border workers. Research employs advanced econometric techniques including spatial modeling and natural language processing.