Paola Suarez has been a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute since 2016. In August 2019 she joined the Department of Economics and Legal Studies at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University as Assistant Professor of Economics. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Purchase College, SUNY for 2018-2019. Paola earned her Ph.D. in Economics in 2018 from George Mason University and she was a visiting Ph.D. Fellow in the Department of Economics at New York University from 2016-2018. Her research is comprised of two strands: development economics, and applied microeconomics of gender. She has worked on investigating the causes of child-bride marriages in developing countries, with a particular focus on India, and on how policies aimed at raising female marriage age interact with child-bride marriage markets. She has also studied the role of formal and informal governance institutions, such as the Magna Carta, private communities, and superstition-based institutions.