Valentina Melentyeva
University of CologneI am a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Cologne and a member of the ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy Cluster of Excellence. Prior to joining the University of Cologne, I was a PhD student at the University of Mannheim (GESS) and worked as a researcher in the group "Inequality and Public Policy" at the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. My research interests include labor economics with the focus on gender inequality and applied econometrics.