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Gema Zamarro
  • Arie Kapteyn
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  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
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  • Yadira Garcia
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  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Samuel Lau
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Kathleen Mullen
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
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  • Juan Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
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  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Tanya Sethi
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Michele Warnock
  • Bas Weerman
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Yizhou Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Aidan Cole
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Brian Finch
  • Deborah Finkel
  • Maya Fransz-Myers
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Samuel Lau
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Kathleen Mullen
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Tanya Sethi
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Michele Warnock
  • Bas Weerman
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen

Gema Zamarro

Senior Economist
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310.574.1621
zamarror@usc.edu
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Biographical Sketch
Gema Zamarro (Ph.D. CEMFI & UNED, Madrid (Spain), 2006) is a Senior Economist at the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) and adjunct Assistant Professor at USC Rossier School of Education. Prior to joining CESR, Zamarro was an Economist at the RAND Corporation and Professor of Econometrics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy (2007-2013), as well as, assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a junior research fellow at NETSPAR (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) (2005-2007). Dr. Zamarro has performed research on applied econometrics in the areas of labor, health, and education. She has recently completed studies on heterogeneity in returns to education, on the relationship between teacher quality and student performance, on the effect of school closing policies on student outcomes, and on the causal effect of retirement on health. Her current education research focuses on analyzing the effects of dual-language immersion (DLI) on student outcomes taking advantage of the lottery mechanism, used to enter these programs, to estimate causal effects. In addition, she is researching the properties of value-added methods for estimating teacher quality, the pathways to better health in retirement, the effect of retirement on financial and subjective well-being, and the determinants and consequences of low health literacy, financial literacy, and food security.
Education
Ph.D. Economics, CEMFI & UNED (Madrid, Spain), 11/2006
M.S. Economics and Finance, CEMFI (Madrid, Spain), 06/2002
B.A. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 06/2000
Employment
Economist, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research, 2013
Adjunct Economist, RAND Corporation, 2013
Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC Rossier School of Education, 2013
Economist, RAND Corporation, 2011-2013
Professor of Economics, Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, 2011-2013
Associate Economist, RAND Corporation, 2007-2011
Assistant Professor, University of Tilburg, Department of Econometrics, 2005-2007
Publications

Journal Article

Engberg, J., Gill, B., Zamarro, G., Zimmer, R. (2012). Closing schools in a shrinking district: Do students outcomes depend on which schools are closed?. Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 71, pp. 189-203.
Fonseca, R., Mullen, K., Zamarro, G., Zissimopoulos, J. (2012). What Explains the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy? The Role of Household Decision-Making. Journal of Consumer Affairs. Vol. 46 (1), pp. 90-106.
Coe, N. B., Zamarro, G. (2011). Retirement Effects on Health in Europe. Journal of Health Economics. Vol. 30, pp. 77-86.
Zamarro, G. "Accounting for Heterogeneous Returns in Sequential Schooling Decisions." Journal of Econometrics Vol. 156. (2010): 260-276.
Buddin, R. J., Zamarro, G. (2009). Teacher Qualifications and Student Achievement in Urban Elementary Schools. Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 66 (2), pp. 103-115.
 
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