Cinzia Rienzo

PhD in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011; Msc Economics, Queen Mary University of London; Degree in Economics and Social Discipline, Italy.

Previous experience includes Senior Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research; Researcher at the Centre of Migration Policy and Society, University of Oxford; Teaching Fellow at Sussex University, Department of Economics, and Guest Teacher at the London School of Economics, Managerial Economics and Strategy Group.

Current research interests: migration; mental health; school-to-work transition and migration in Development countries.

Key professional affiliations, editorships includes

• Contributor for theMigration Observatory, University of Oxford since 2011.
• Referee for, amongst others: Labour Economics; Regional Studies; Population, Space and Place; International Migration; Journal of International Development
• Referee: ESRC grant
• funded projects and other key past projects
• “REMINDER” (2017-2018)-Part-time Researcher for the Role of European Mobility and its Impact in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms, funded by the E, led by University of Oxford.
• "Early labour market transitions for women in low income African economies” (2014-2017), Member of UK team and support group. CA$787,000International Development Research Centre/Department for International Development/ William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.Led by Prof. A. McKay, University of Sussex.

Previous Policy Evaluation projects

• “Growing Learners” (2016-2017) (with H. Rolfe, R. Dorsett), Randomised Control Trial.
• Project leader and member of evaluation team. £98,000.Funded by the Education endowmnet Foundation (EEF).
• “National evaluation of the Troubled Families programme: National impact studies report”, (with H. Bewley, A. George, and J. Portes). Department for Communities and Local Government. October 2016.
• “Powerful learning conversation: evaluation report” (with H. Rolfe and D. Wilkinson). Randomised Control Trial, May 2016.
• Project Leader and member of evaluation team. £85,076. Funded by EEF.

Publications

• An Assessment of Bank Lending to UK SMEs in the wake of the crisis 28 July 2013
• Residual Wage Inequality and Immigration in the USA and the UK 01 September 2014
• Targeting migration with limited control: the case of the UK and the EU 10 August 2015
• Real wages, wage inequality and the regional cost-of-living in the UK 07 September 2016
• Gender gaps in the path to adulthood for young females and males in six African countries from the 1990s to the 2010s 28 August 2018
• Intergenerational and inter-ethnic mental health: an analysis for the UK 27 September 2018