Manuel Bagues

1 Manuel BaguesE-mail: Website: , Phone: +358 (0) 50 4104065 Postal Address: Aalto University, Department of Economics, Box 21240, 00076, Helsinki, FinlandVisiting Address: Office A209, Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki, FinlandCurrent PositionAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, Aalto University2016-presentFull Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of WarwickStarting Sept. 2018 OtherAppointmentsAffiliate, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal)2017-presentResearch Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)2016-presentResearch Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)2011-presentPreviousPositionsAssist ant Professor, Department of Economics, Aalto University2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Business Department, Universidad Carlos III2006-2013 Visiting Professor, CEMFI, Madrid, SpainFall 2014 Visiting Scholar, Research Department, Bank of Spain, Madrid, Spain 2009-2010 Post Doctoral Researcher, Laboratory in Economics and Management, 2004-2006 Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa, in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain2004 Fields of interestLabor Economics, Economics of Education, Political EconomyAcademicPublicationsWhat You Know Can t Hurt You (for Long).

2 A Field Experiment on Relative Per-formance Feedback (with Ghazala Azmat, Antonio Cabrales and Nagore Iriberri)Forthcoming atManagement ScienceA Walk on the Wild Side: Predatory Journals and Information Asymmetries inScientific Evaluations (with Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)Forthcoming atResearch Policy, special issue on "Academic misconduct"Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter? (with Mauro SylosLabini and Natalia Zinovyeva)American Economic Review, 2017, Vol. 107(4), pp. 1207-1238 Politicians Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (withBerta Esteve-Volart)Journal of Political Economy, 2016, Vol. 124(5), pp. 1269-12941 The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions (with Natalia Zinovyeva)American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, 2015, Vol. 7(2), pp. 264-292 Why Do I Like People Like Me? (with Mar a Jos P rez Villad niga)Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, Vol.

3 148(3), pp. 1292-1299 Are Women Pawns in the Political Game? Evidence from Elections to the SpanishSenate (with Berta Esteve-Volart),Journal of Public Economics, 2012, Vol. 96, pp. 387-399Do Recruiters Prefer Applicants with Similar Skills? Evidence from a RandomizedNatural Experiment (with Mar a Jos P rez Villad niga),Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, Vol. 82, pp. 12-20 Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Repeated RandomizedExperiment (with Berta Esteve-Volart),Review of Economic Studies, 2010, Vol. 77(4), pp. 1301-1328Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The impact of AlmaLaurea onUniversity-to-Work transition (with Mauro Sylos Labini)In David H. Autor (ed),NBER volume Studies of Labor Market Intermedi-ation , 2009, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 127-154A translation of this article into Italian appeared at L universit in transizione: Lau-reati vecchi e nuovi alla luce della reforma, edited by Andrea Cammelli.

4 Bologna: Grading Standards and University Funding: Evidence from Italy (withMauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva),CESifo Economic Studies, 2008, Vol. 54(2), pp. 149-176A translation of this article into Russian appeared at the Journal of EducationalStudies, 2009, Vol. 4 Working PapersWomen and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back? Comment (with PamelaCampa)Revision requested byJournal of Political EconomyConnections in Scientific Committees and Applicants Self-selection: Evidence from aNatural Randomized Experiment (with Mauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)CEPR Discussion Paper No. 12308 Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regres-sion Discontinuity Design (with Pamela Campa)CEPR Discussion paper No. 12149, IZA Discussion Paper No. 10888 Work in ProgressDo Gender Quotas in Hiring Committees Help Women? Evidence from Spain (jointwith Berta Esteve-Volart)The Production Function of College Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment(with In s Berniell and Antonio Cabrales)The Effect of Ballot Order: Evidence from the Spanish Senate (with Berta Esteve-Volart)2 Top Civil Service: Meritocracy or Nepotism?

5 (with Berta Esteve-Volart)Performance Pay and Judicial Production: Evidence from Spain (with Berta Esteve-Volart)Gender and Overconfidence in Selection Processes: Evidence from Public Examina-tions (with Berta Esteve-Volart)Popular WritingRegular contributor to the leading economic blog in Spain, nadaesgratis (+50 blogposts), and occasional contributor to several other blogs (VoxEU, Lavoce, ingenere),newspapers (La Vanguardia, Cinco D as), reports (Informe CyD, Newsletter of theSpanish Committee on the Situation of Women in the Economic Profession), mag-azines (Revista de Jueces para la Democracia), radio (Cadena Ser, Radio Nacional,Canal Nou) and TV (LaSexta).My research has been featured in the main Spanish newspapers (ABC, Cinco D as,Correo, El Pa s, Expansi n, La Gaceta de los Negocios, La Vanguardia, )Webpage with statistical information on public exams in Spain addressed to a generalaudience that has attracted more than 500,000 visits and author of several populararticles on the topic, including Qu determina el xito en unas oposiciones?

6 Co-editor and author of three chapters in the book La ley de Econom a Sostenible y lasReformas Estructurales, jointly with Jes s Fern ndez-Villaverde and Luis Garicano,2010. Author of three chapters in the 3rd FEDEA monograph Talento, esfuerzo ymovilidad social, 2011 Invited Seminars,Conferences andWorkshops2018 (including scheduled) - Yale-NUS (Singapore), Heidelberg University, Sciences-Po LIEPP (Paris), Centre d Economie de la Sorbonne (Paris), British Science Festival(Hull, UK), Political Economy workshop Theory meets Empirics (London, UK)2017 - New Economic School 25th Anniversary Conference (Moscow, Russia), Univer-sit della Svizzera Italiana at Lugano, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI),Workshop on Political Economy and Political Science (Invited speaker, Santiago,Chile), Universidad de Chile, Gender Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland), UppsalaUniversity, IZA/CREST/OECD Workshop.

7 Recent Advances in the Economics ofDiscrimination (Paris, France), Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organi-zational Economics (New York, US), Workshop A Gender Agenda (SIEPR, Stanford,US), COSME Workshop on Gender Economics (Madrid, Spain), Erasmus University,Oslo University, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Gen-eve, Switzerland), Annual Meeting of the Finnish Economic Association (Jyv skyl ,Finland), American Economic Association AEA (Chicago, US),2016 Simposio de An lisis Econ mico (Bilbao, Spain), Zurich University, WarwickUniversity, Vienna University, Humboldt University, Tinbergen Institute, EuropeanUniversity Institute, American Economic Association AEA (San Francisco, US)2015 - Simposio de An lisis Econ mico (Girona, Spain), Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona (Economics Dept.) & Institut d An lisi Eco-nomic, JPAL conference on Field Experiments in Labor Economics and Social Poli-cies (Paris, France), 1st GPEFM PhD Alumni Meeting (Barcelona, Spain), AnnualCongress of the European Economic Association (Mannheim, Germany), Society ofLabor Economics (Montreal, Canada), Workshop on Empirical Political Economics3and Political Science (Stockholm, Sweden), New Economic School (Moscow, Rus-sia), University of Bergen, IIES/Stockholm University, Lund University, Universityof Zurich, CERGE-EI (Prague, Czech Republic), Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona(Applied Economics Dept.)

8 , Annual Meeting of the Finnish Economic Association(Helsinki, Finland)2014 - Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Simposio de An lisis Econ mico(Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Universidad de Alicante, UC3M Business, UC3M Eco-nomics, CEMFI, Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro (Pisa, Italy), Bankof Italy (Rome, Italy), Meeting of the French Economic Association (Invited Ses-sion, Lyon, France), Workshop Gender in the Boardroom (Sheffield, UK), Festivaldell Economia (Trento, Italy), COSME Gender Workshop (Invited speaker, Madrid,Spain), Norwegian School of Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI),University of Jyv skyl , Hitotsubashi University, Gender Workshop at Nagoya Uni-versity (Keynote speaker, Nagoya, Japan), Meeting of the Finnish Economic Associ-ation (Kuopio, Finland), Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS)2013 - University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Calgary University, Banco deEspa a, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino, Italy), Open University School of Philosophy(UNED), Universidad de M laga, Universidad de Vigo, Universidad Carlos III Eco-nomics, Warwick University, University of Bern, London School of Economics, Univer-sity of Essex, York University, Gender Economics workshop organised by UniCreditand Universit Bocconi (Keynote speaker, Milan, Italy), Workshop Els joves NINI:com evitar una generaci perduda?

9 Organized by IVALUA (Barcelona, Spain), Mon-day s Meeting on Political Economy (M laga, Spain), Society of Labor EconomistsSOLE (Boston, US), American Economic Association AEA (San Diego, US)2012 - Queen Mary University, Turku University, VATT Helsinki, University of Bris-tol, University of Edinburgh, Universit della Svizzera Italiana at Lugano, HelsinkiCenter of Economic Research, BI Norwegian Business School, Institut d Economia deBarcelona, European Labour Economics Association EALE (Bonn, Germany), Eu-ropean Economic Association and the Econometric Society European meeting EEA-ESEM (M laga, Spain), NBER Summer Institute (Boston, US), European Society forPopulation Economics ESPE (Bern, Switzerland), American Economic AssociationAEA (Chicago, US)2011 - IPP-CSIC, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, DIW Berlin,Westminster University, Simposio de An lisis Econ mico SAE (M laga, Spain), Con-ference of the European Political Science Association EPSA (Dublin, Ireland), Work-shop on Personnel Economics and the Public Sector (Ravello, Italy), InternationalMeeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics IMEBE (Barcelona, Spain)2010 - Universit Tor Vergata, Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona, Universitat Pom-peu Fabra, Universit di Bolonia, Helsinki Center of Economic Research, Universi-dad Carlos III Econ, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Alicante, CEMFI,Conference on Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking (Barcelona,Spain), Econometric Society World Congress (Shanghai, China), EALE-SOLE 3rd In-ternational Conference (London, UK)

10 , 3rd Workshop on Gender Economics COSME(Madrid, Spain)2009 - Universidad del Pa s Vasco, Bank of Spain, Simposio de An lisis Econ micoSAE (Valencia, Spain), European Labour Economics Association EALE (Tallinn,Estonia), European Economic Association EEA (Barcelona, Spain), European So-ciety for Population Economics ESPE (Sevilla, Spain), 2nd Workshop on Gender4 Economics COSME (Granada, Spain), ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT(Mannheim, Germany) COSME Workshop at the Bank of Spain (Madrid, Spain),Society of Labor Economists SOLE (Boston, US)2008 - Aarhus Business School, IMT Lucca, Universidad de Alicante, FEDEA, Univer-sidad de Oviedo, Simposio de An lisis Econ mico SAE (Zaragoza, Spain), EuropeanSociety for Population Economics ESPE (London, UK), Society of Labor EconomistsSOLE (NYC, US), Conference on University Autonomy at the EUI (Florence, Italy),1st Workshop on Gender Economics COSME (Granada, Spain), Workshop C tedraCapital Humano y Empleo at FEDEA (Madrid, Spain), IZA/SOLE TransatlanticMeeting of Labor Economists (Ammersee, Germany)2007 - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Universidad de Le n, Universit de Cergy-Pontoise, Universit Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, FEDEA, Workshop Measuring Dis-criminations at Universit d Evry (Paris, France), CEPR Fourth Symposium of theNetwork Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe (Madrid, Spain),European Labour Economics Association EALE (Oslo, Norway), CESifo Workshopon Innovation and Higher Education (Venice, Italy), NBER Labor Market Interme-diation Conference (Cambridge, US), Society of Labor Economists SOLE (Chicago,US), Journ es des In galit s dans le Syst me de Recherche (Strasbourg, France)