Teodora N. Tsankova is e tenured Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Before joining Tilburg, she earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in 2020. Additionally, Teodora holds a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University (2012) and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the American University in Bulgaria (2011). Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked for two years as a Research Analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Office of the Chief Economist. Teodora’s main research interests are in applied labor economics, public economics, and political economy. Her current work is related to migration, education and electoral processes, and has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.