Caterina Calsamiglia
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Biography
ICREA Research Professor and group leader of the Computational Social Science and Humanities unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where she leads the Welfare and Equity Group. Her work integrates AI and data-intensive solutions into public policy, with a particular focus on market design and education policy. She holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University and conduct research that spans theoretical, experimental, and empirical approaches.
Together with an interdisciplinary team, she has developed Pentabilities, a methodology for fostering socioemotional learning by integrating behavioral feedback collected in classrooms. Between September 2022 and March 2024, she led the design and implementation of four large-scale RCTs in Catalunya, Andalucía, Ceuta, and Melilla. Three were implemented through Fundació Bofill's Suport Educatiu program, and the fourth through Fundesplai's Hedera program.
She is affiliated with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity group, the Stone Center at the University of Chicago, IZA, CEPR, and JPAL as an invited researcher and senior fellow at EsadeEcPol. Additionally, she collaborate with interdisciplinary initiatives such as Cooperation4Climate and the BESSI team in psychology.
Educación
PhD in Economics at Yale University, 2005
Economics at UPF, 1999