Monica received her PhD from the University of London in 2002. She now is Research Economist at the Department of Economics, University of Porto, and is Senior Research Economist and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her current research interests include the determinants and dynamics of labour supply and human capital, the evaluation and design of eductional and employment policies in dynamic economies and the development of econometric methods for policy evaluation.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2009.