Ana Gamarra Rondinel 

Welcome!

I'm a Research Fellow/Lecturer at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research and at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. I'm also a Research Affiliate with CESifo and the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU).

I'm a public economist with expertise in taxation and government policy. My research focuses on four core areas: taxation, higher education, early childhood, and inequality. I study the effects of student loans on university enrollment and post-education outcomes; the role of taxation and welfare policy in shaping economic behavior around childbirth; and the efficiency and redistributive impacts of the tax and transfer system. Additionally, I'm a project member of the Breaking Down Barriers Shared Data Environment (BDB-SDE) and the Community Tax Project (Melbourne Social Equity Institute).

I received my B.A. in Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, my M.S. in Economics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, and my Ph.D. in Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2020 (Summa cum laude).

Affiliations: International Institute of Public Finance, Women in Economics, European Economic Association

News!

In 2025, my work will be presented at the 2025 CESifo Area Conference on Public Economics (LMU), 2025 Annual Congress of the IIPF (Kenya), CEP Education Conference 2025 (LSE), 6th World Labor Conference-ASSLE/SOLE (Toronto), 5th Australian Workshop on Public Finance (ANU-TBC),  Centre for Community Child Health Seminars, BSL Social Policy and Research Centre Seminars, Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific, University of Michigan Seminar Series. I will serve as chair at the Justice and the Tax Base Conference.