Monica Costa Dias is an Associate Director at the IFS and a Research Economist at the Centre for Economics and Finance, UK, and a Research Fellow at the University of Porto, Portugal. She is interested in modelling individual and household behavior to understand the determinants of education and employment choices, the process of skill formation, earnings, economic well-being and the impact of public policy. Her current research focuses on: women labor supply and career choices over the life-cycle, the links between education, marriage and employment histories, life-cycle inequality and redistribution, micro-econometric methods for policy evaluation, and the dynamic impacts of active labor market programs.

Costa Dias received her Ph.D. in Economics  from the University of London in 2002.