María Prados

María José Prados is a Senior Economist at the University of Southern California's Center for Economic and Social Research. She was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and a RCMAR Scholar for the Minority Aging Health Economics Research Center at USC. Prados received her PhD in Economics from Columbia University. Her research focuses primarily on inequality and life cycle dynamics. One area of her work is about gender inequalities in the labor market. In other work, she has studied how early childhood interventions, education and health policies affect the lifecycle evolution of health disparities and earnings inequality. She is currently working on understanding the behavioral factors behind heterogeneity in retirement readiness.