Laurenz Baertsch

Experience

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  HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne

  Dec 2013 - Aug 2014

  Research Assistant
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  CUTS International

  Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  Research Intern

  CUTS International is an NGO that supports developing countries in the elaboration of a coherent trade policy within the WTO framework. My responsibilities included the elaboration of briefing papers (Services Trade in Telecommunications in Vietnam) as well as quantitative and qualitative research support.

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  BAK Economics AG

  Mar 2016 - Sept 2016

  Research Intern

  Data collection, preparation and validation for the Regional Economic Database, which economic activity at the regional level for most OECD countries Publications, using R and Excel. Preparation of publications, e.g. sectoral and regional economic monitor.

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  Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona

  Sept 2017 - Mar 2023

  Thesis: Essays on Inequalities in Education and Labor Markets Graduate level: Development Economics of the Barcelona School of Economics master programs. Focus on causal inference microeconomic research. Undergraduate level: Macroeconomics II, Microeconomics I and Data Analysis at undergraduate level. Weekly seminars and supervision of term projects. Taught in Spanish and English.

  • Doctoral Researcher

    Sept 2018 - Mar 2023

  • Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2017 - Jul 2022
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  International Growth Centre

  Dec 2019 - Jul 2020

  Consultant

  Principal investigator in project "Quantifying the Economic Benefits of Public Transportationin Kampala", based on travel habit surveys, Google Maps travel time predictions and simulations in Python and ArcGIS (ArcPy).

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  Science to Data Science (S2DS)

  Mar 2023 - Apr 2023

  S2DS Fellow - Data Scientist

  5-week Data Science boot camp designed for advanced analytical professionals working on industry project.During the program, I collaborated with a team of five on a project for Pivigo’s social housing product. Our objective was to develop a Machine Learning solution to identify at-risk tenants to inform income officers, thereby reducing their work load.

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  OECD - OCDE

  Apr 2023 - now

  Center for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities.Working on local labour markets in the green and digital transition. Employment, Labour and Social Affairs - Social Policy DivisionStatistical evaluation of randomized survey experiment on perceptions of climate change mitigation policies.Study of determinants of cross-country differences in perceptions of social protection.

  • Economist

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Junior Economist

    Apr 2023 - Sept 2023