Timea Laura Molnar

Tímea Laura Molnár is an Assistant Professor in Economics and a Research Affiliate at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She is the recipient of the 2018 Dissertation Award from the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Working Group at the University of Chicago.

Research interests in: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Education and Early Child Development.

Using quasi-experimental methods and field experiments, her current research focuses on gender gaps, mothers' labor market sorting after childbirth, compensating wage differentials, educational and childcare policies, and the long-run consequences of early childhood investments. Her work has been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, and Canadian Journal of Economics, and has been presented at NBER, SOLE, EEA, EALE, and other leading conferences.

At CEU, Tímea teaches Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Introductory Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of the 2024 Best Teacher Award in the MA in Economic Policy in Global Markets program at CEU and was nominated by a group of students for CEU's (University-wide) Teaching Excellence Award in 2025.