Núria Rodríguez-Planas is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn (since February 2012) She is also an Associate Professor at Queens College, CUNY, in New York. and Affiliated Researcher at the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (IAE-CSIC)(since March 2012). She was previously Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Assistant Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. She also held positions as an Economist in Washington DC at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Mathematica Policy Research, and the Brookings Institution. Núria received her Ph.D. in Economics in 1999 from Boston University.