Michèle Tertilt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Prior to joining Mannheim, she was an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Hoover National Fellow. In 2019, she was awarded the Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Award by the German Science Foundation and in 2017 she won the Yrjö Jahnsson Award for her research. Currently, she serves as a Director of the Review of Economic Studies.
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A new era in the economics of fertility
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The shecession (she-recession) of 2020: Causes and consequences
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The importance of testing and age-specific policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
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