Maia Güell is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at CUNEF Universidad and at the University of Edinburgh from 2007. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has worked at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Princeton University. Her research fields are labour economics and economics of education. Her articles have been published in internationally renowned journals, such as The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, and Economic Journal, among others.