Economics serving society
Laura Silva

Laura Silva

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Paris School of Economics

Campus Jourdan – 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

4th floor, office 57

Research groups: Labour and Public Economics
  • Public policy
  • Regional and Urban Economics

I am a postdoctoral fellow within the Urban Economics, History and Society unit. I obtained my PhD in Sociology at the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at Sciences Po in Paris in November 2023. I am also affiliated to the Centre for Social Science Research at University of Cape Town (UCT).

I use both quantitative and qualitative methods and I am interested in different research topics across the urban spectrum and across the global North and South:

  • Urban segregation and neighbourhood inequality
  • Neighbourhood effects on educational and political outcomes across the life course
  • Smart cities and the reproduction of inequalities
  • Climate change and individual behaviours across cities and regions
  • Infrastructural deprivation or precarity
  • Urban-rural migration patterns

  • Re-development strategies for urban and non-urban areas