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Olmo Silva is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics in the Department of Geography and Environment. He is currently also Research Director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC, LSE), as well as a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP, LSE) and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn). Prior to this, Olmo was a Marie Curie Fellow at University College London and a Research Officer at the CEP.
He also spent the Autumn Term of 2011 as a Visiting Scholar at the Taubman Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. Olmo holds a PhD from the European University (EUI), and a Masters and Bachelors in Economics from Bocconi University.
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Economics of Education
Urban Economics
Entrepreneurship