Rafael Lalive holds a position as a professor in economics at University of Lausanne since September 2006. His main research interests are twofold. On one hand, he works on the economic effects of reforms to public policy and on the technological transformation. Specifically, his research has focused on the effectiveness of active labor market programs in helping job seekers find jobs, on the role of financial incentives in unemployment insurance, on the effects of parental leave policies on fertility and return to work of mother of newborn children, on policies for disabled individuals and on the effects of environmental policies. On the other hand, he is interested in social economics, i.e. the importance of social interactions for education decisions and the role of social learning. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn (IZA) and an affiliate of CEPR and IFAU. Rafael Lalive earned a PhD in labor economics from University of Zurich in 20021, and was an invited scholar at the Center for Labor Economics at UC Berkeley in 2014 and at Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam in the academic year 2002 to 2003.