Lara Patrício Tavares is Assistant Professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon. She is a social scientist with a background in economics - bachelor's and master's degree at the Nova University of Lisboa and PhD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex (UK).Her research interests include family economics, education economics and social demographics.
Throughout her career she collaborated on several projects: "Labour Demand, Education and the Dynamics of Social Exclusion" financed by the European Commission (1998-2000), "The Portuguese transportation networks, an intermodal perspective (1850-1950)" funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2001-2004), "Reproductive decision-making in the macro-micro perspective" (REPRO), on the University of Essex’s team (2008-2010), and was Research Fellow in the project "Consequences of Demographic Changes" funded by the European Research Council and developed in DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' (2009-2011). Her work has been published in several scientific journals: Population and Development Review, Social Science Research, Population Review, Journal of International Migration and Integration and Revista de Historia Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones.
At the School of Social and Political Sciences she has taught Economics, Microeconomics Principles, Macroeconomics Principles, Demography and, at a Master’s level, Labour Economics and Education Economics. At the Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' she taught classes in the laboratory of the course "Quantitative Methods for Management '(in English).
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