Dr Ana Gamarra Rondinel

Ana Gamarra Rondinel is Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute Applied Economic and Social Research (University of Melbourne) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. She is also a Research Affiliate with the CESifo Institute (LMU Munich) and the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Crawford School of Public Policy (ANU), and a member of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) Expert Panel.

Ana’s work as a public economist focuses on the design and evaluation of government policy. Her research spans three areas – taxation, education, and family – with gender and inequality as cross-cutting themes.

Ana also contributes to the Breaking Down Barriers Shared Data Environment (BDB-SDE) and the Community Tax Project at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.

Ana specifically examines:

1. The efficiency and distributive effects of tax policy, using microdata to capture the complexities of modern tax systems.
2. How the higher education policies – particularly tuition regulation and income-contingent loans – shape participation and outcomes.
3. How family policies influence parents’ income, employment, and gender dynamics in the early years of parenthood.

Affiliations: International Institute of Public Finance, Women in Economics, European Economic Association