Alícia Adserà

Alícia Adserà is Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Economics at Princeton University’s Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and serves as Director of Graduate Studies at the Office of Population Research. She is a Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences abroad of an unspecified learned society since 2021 and a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor.

Education & Career Path:

• Previous tenured appointment: Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Research Affiliate, Population Research Center, University of Chicago
• Earlier teaching posts: Ohio State University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Research Focus: Adserà’s scholarship lies at the intersection of economic demography, labour economics, and political economy. A central strand investigates fertility behaviour in low-fertility settings, examining how employment uncertainty, labour-market institutions, and macro-economic conditions shape childbearing decisions. Complementary work analyses international migration, covering immigrant fertility, language and cultural determinants of migration flows, the welfare-state magnet hypothesis, and gendered labour-market outcomes of migrants across Europe and North America. Recent studies extend to gender wage gaps among parents and the well-being of child migrants.

Scientific Distinctions:

• Fernand Braudel Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence
• Advisory Board, Wittgenstein Centre and Vienna Institute of Demography
• Advisory Board, Center of Demographic Studies, Barcelona

Grants & Collaborative Networks: While specific grant numbers are not disclosed, her sustained output in top journals and multi-country data projects (e.g., PNAS cross-national surveys, comparative European migration micro-data) indicate substantial external funding from European and North-American sources. She has co-authored extensively with scholars such as Ana Ferrer, Carles Boix, Mariola Pytliková and Nadja Milewski.

Affiliations & Service: Beyond Princeton, she is a long-standing member of the American Economic Association, Population Association of America, European Association of Labour Economists, European Population Association, and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, underscoring her role in shaping demographic and labour-economic research agendas on both sides of the Atlantic.