Alexandra de Gendre

I am the 2022 McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. Since 2026 I am also a CNRS Research Fellow affiliated with CREST in Paris.  

I am an economist interested in applied microeconomics, applied econometrics and the formation of human capital. I study how children’s health and education is shaped by their parents, teachers, peers, and education and welfare policies. I am also interested in meta-science and methods to improve the reliability of our empirical research findings. My McKenzie Fellowship project focuses on methods to synthesize and generalize empirical findings in the case of peer effects and teacher role model effects on student performance.

Affiliations

• The Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne since February 2022
  
• CNRS Research Fellow, CREST, Paris since February 2026
  
• IZA Institute of Labor Economics since July 2018
  
• Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (LCC) since May 2018
  

Education

I completed my Ph.D. in Economics from Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Olivier Marie. After my Ph.D., I joined the University of Sydney in Australia as postdoctoral Research Associate, before joining the University of Melbourne in my current capacity. Before my Ph.D., I completed a M.Sc. degree in Statistics at Ensai in France, and a M.Sc. in Economics at Humboldt University in Germany.