Marica Valente

Dr. Marica Valente is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck. She is an empirical microeconometrician and environmental economist working on diverse microeconomic topics including health, labor, conflict, and illegality, with methodological expertise in causal inference and machine learning.

• Current affiliations: Department of Economics (University of Innsbruck), DIW Berlin (Department of Energy, Transportation and Environment)
• Education: PhD in Economics (2020, Humboldt University) under Bernd Fitzenberger and Jeffrey Wooldridge; Graduate studies at Toulouse School of Economics (2015)

Her research intersects environmental economics with industrial organization and agricultural economics, while maintaining secondary interests in health economics, conflict economics, labor economics, and gender economics. She actively employs modern econometric techniques and data science approaches in her empirical work.

Dr. Valente is affiliated with multiple research networks including Women in Data Science (WINDS), Innsbruck Digital Science Center (DiSC), Decision Sciences (IDS), and the Institute for Public Policy Evaluation (IRVAPP FBK). She currently offers a biennial Postdoc position at the University of Innsbruck and participates in international research collaborations.