Olatz Roman

Welcome to my website!

I am a PhD student in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence. My supervisors are Thomas F. Crossley and Alexander Monge-Naranjo. I visited UC Berkeley during spring 2022.

My research interests are mainly in family, labor and gender economics. I study how gendered behaviors and geographical factors influence labor market and family decisions of individuals and couples. In my job market paper, I analyze how first child birth impacts couples’ relationship quality, revealing a substantial decline attributed to shifts in household specialization along traditional gender lines.

I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market.

You can find my CV here and learn more about my research here.

You can email me at olatz.roman@eui.eu.