M (Michelle) González Amador

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University and Research’s Economic Research Institute, Agricultural Economics Chair, working under the supervision of Dr. Esther Gehrke. I completed my Ph.D. at Maastricht University, promoted by Prof. Dr. Robin Cowan. My work focuses on complex socioeconomic systems, with a focus on human capital investment (read education) of young people. I use diverse econometric, algorithmic and experimental methods to analyse how young people interact with themselves, systems and technology, and the economic implications of such actions. Besides that, I am interested in social and economic networks, optimal allocation of scarce resources, health, labour, gender, and machine learning for public policy. Some of the experimental work that I do happens in Mexico, my home country. Recently, I completed a visiting research at Stanford University’s Impact Lab on Equitable Access to Education (2024), under the supervision of Prof. Irene Lo.