For a full CV, please visit my personal webpage.
 
CURRENT POSITION
 
July 2015-Present: Post-Doctoral Researcher, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Munich, Germany
 
EDUCATION
 
Oct. 2011–June 2015: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Bologna (Italy)
Supervisor: Prof. Matthew John Wakefield
Dissertation: Essays in the Economics of Ageing
Sep. 2010–Sep. 2011: M.Sc. in Economic Policy, University College London (U.K.)
Sep. 2007–Dec. 2009: M.A. in Economics, University of Bologna (Italy)
Mar. 2009–July 2009: Erasmus exchange program, London School of Economics (U.K.)
Sept. 2004–Nov. 2007: B.A. in Economics, University of Bologna (Italy)
 

• Ferrari, Irene (2017): "The Effectiveness of Incentives to Postpone Retirement: Evidence from Italy". In: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, forthcoming (), pp. .

• Börsch-Supan, Axel; Ferrari, Irene (2017): Old-age Labor Force Participation in Germany: What Explains the Trend Reversal among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase among Women? , NBER Working Paper No. 24044 , National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Ferrari, Irene (2017): The Nativity Wealth Gap in Europe: a Matching Approach , MEA Discussion Paper 08-2017
• Börsch-Supan, Axel; Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ferrari, Irene; Kutlu Koc, Vesile; Rausch, Johannes (2016): The Development of the Pension Gap and German Households’ Saving Behavior , MEA Discussion Paper 02-2016

• Implications of Hyperbolic Discounting on Retirement Decisions
• The Nativity Wealth Gap in Europe: a Matching Approach
• ISSP8: Old-age Labor Force Participation in Germany: What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?
• The Costs of Firm Exit and Labour Market Policies: new Evidence from Europe
• The development of the pension gap and German households’ saving behavior
• The Effectiveness of Incentives to Postpone Retirement: Evidence from Italy