Anzelika Zaiceva is an Associate Professor of Economic Policy (Politica Economica) at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Italy. Previously, she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence in 2007. She has participated in numerous national and international research projects and acted as a consultant for the OECD.

Her main research interests are in labor and population economics, economics of the household, economics of development and transition, migration, gender and applied microeconometrics.

From 2006 until 2010 she was a Research Associate at IZA, and became a Research Fellow in 2011.