ishen@milkeninstitute.org

I-Ling Shen is a senior research analyst at the Milken Institute. She specializes in population economics, economic growth and inequality. Her research on international migration has been published in the Journal of Economic Inequality, Economic Inquiry, as well as working paper series at the Bank of Italy, the London-based Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Her work was cited in United Nations' "Human Development Report 2009" and was widely covered by media in the U.S. and Europe. Her commentary has appeared in the Sacramento Bee and Real Clear Markets. Shen is an IZA research fellow and a research associate with Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium, and she was formerly a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from UCL and a master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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