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Position Title
Economist
- Inter-American Development Bank
Cynthia van der Werf is an Economist at the Migration Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Previously she was Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics in 2020 from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the economic integration of immigrants and the spillovers between newcomers and natives. Currently, she is studying whether the timing of language acquisition affects adult refugees’ dynamic labor market outcomes of adult refugees in Denmark; her findings shed light on the effect of language skills on the likelihood of being employed, earnings trajectories, and occupation in the short and long run. In other research, she is investigating the impact of the inflow of refugees on the U.S. education system. In particular, she is interested in establishing if an inflow of refugees changes native's school choice and in determining if it affects the quality of the education they receive.