Carmen Villa
Research Affiliate
Joined RFBerlin as a Research Affiliate in October 2025
Research area
Child and Youth Development Economics of Crime
About Carmen Villa
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich and the Jacobs Centre for Productive Youth Development. My research explores the effects of public policy on youth development and crime. I obtained my PhD from the University of Warwick.
March 2026
Sex, Lies and Birth Statistics: The Mysterious Case of the Spanish Missing Women
Manuel Bagues, Carmen Villa
December 2025
Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school
Jack Britton, Nick Ridpath, Ben Waltmann, Carmen Villa
