Fields of interest

Human capital, labour economics, health economics.

Publications

• "Educational Hypogamy is Associated with a Smaller Child Penalty on Women's Earnings"
  with Nadia Steiber, Bernd Liedl and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Social Science Research, Vol. 135, 2026.
• "Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Bombing on Children's Outcomes"
  with Giuseppe Migali, Miloš Popović and Sunčica Vujić, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2025.
• "Left Behind in Covid Times: The Impact of the Pandemic on Job Loss and Job Finding Rates of Vulnerable Groups in Serbia"
  with Marko Vladisavljević, Applied Economic Analysis, 31(93), 2023.
• "Child Penalty in Russia: Evidence from an Event Study"
  with Cristiano Perugini and Marko Vladisavljević, Review of Economics of the Household, 21(1), 2023.
• "With a Little Help from My Friends: Medium-Term Effects of a Remedial Education Program Targeting Roma Minority"
  with Marianna Battaglia, Economics of Education Review, 86, 2022.
• "Segregation, Fertility and Son Preference: The Case of the Roma in Serbia"
  with Marianna Battaglia and Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Journal of Demographic Economics, 87(2), 2021.
• "The Effect of Residential Segregation on Formal and Informal Employment of Roma in Serbia"
  Eastern European Economics, 58(2), 2020.
• "The Curse of Low Expectations: Remedial Education and Perceived Returns to Education of Roma People"
  with Marianna Battaglia, Economics of Transition, 25(4), 2017.
• "Welfare State and Social Enterprises in Transition: Evidence from Serbia"
  with Jelena Žarković Rakić, Ana Aleksić Mirić and Marko Vladisavljević, Voluntas, 28(6), 2017.
• "Equal Access to Education: An Evaluation of the Roma Teaching Assistant Programme"
  with Marianna Battaglia, World Development, 76, 2015.
• "Assessing Education's Contribution to Productivity Using Firm Level Evidence"
  with Vincent Vandenberghe, International Journal of Manpower, 35(8), 2014.

Working papers

• "Faith and the Child Penalty: Religious Affiliation and Gendered Earnings Losses After Childbirth"
  with Bernd Liedl, Vegard Skirbekk, Nadia Steiber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (submitted).
• "Experimental Impacts of a Virtual Parenting Program with Mothers and Fathers"
  with Tamara Arnold, Pedro Carneiro, Katia Herrera Sosa, Ana Maria Munoz and Julie Perng (submitted).

Policy papers

• "Support for Marginalized Households in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia"
  with Lubica Hamarov, Theresa Jones, Anca Monica Marin and Vera Borisova Veleva (under the supervision of Lucian Pop and Jorge Luis Castaneda Nunez), World Bank, 2025.
• "Can a (Virtual) Parenting Program in Serbia Support Early Childhood Education and Care?"
  with Tamara Arnold Urzua, Alejandra Amaro Da Costa Luz, Pedro Carneiro, Katia Herrera Sosa, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Julie Perng, World Bank, 2022.
• "Evaluation of On-the-Job Trainings Financed by the National Employment Service"
  with Dejana Pavlović, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit, 2021.
• "Study on the Feasibility of Using Public-Private Partnerships to Expand Access to Preschool in Serbia"
  with Aleksandar Baucal, David Jefferey and Sunčica Vujić, Oxford Policy Management, 2021.
• "Systemic Analysis of ECEC Financing in Serbia"
  with Saša Baucal, World Bank, 2017.
• "Early Childhood Development: The Analysis of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Data"
  UNICEF Working Paper, 2016.