Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (ECO) wins paper prize

Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (ECO researcher)  has been awarded the 2014 Young Scientist ALdE Prize at the  XVII Applied Economics Meeting, which took place in June at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.  The award is  given to the best paper presented by authors under 35 years old.  Jenifer won the prize for her job market paper “Job Loss at Home: Children’s Grades during the Great Recession in Spain”. The prize amounts to 1.500 € and is donated by the Asociación Libre de Economía (ALdE).