I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb (EFZG) and Associate Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Centre for Economic Performance, CEP). I was previously a lecturer at the University of Oxford and post-doc at the London School of Economics. I have a PhD in Economics from the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. 

My research interests are in labour economics, political economy and and the economics of crime (specialising in domestic abuse). Within these topics, I use quantitative methods such as causal inference and text analysis to collect and analyze large administrative datasets and answer policy-relevant questions in social sciences. 

You can contact me on rivandic@net.efzg.hr or r.ivandic@lse.ac.uk and follow me on Twitter.  

NEWS:

• our paper "Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse" is published this month in the Journal of Public Economics 

• "Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories" with Anne Sophie Lassen is forthcoming at the AEA Papers and Proceedings in May 2024

• "International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crime" with Tom Kirchmaier and Steve Machin has been accepted at the Journal of Law and Economics

• I'm working on a project on domestic abuse in Croatia funded by the British Academy for which I've been collecting novel administrative data. You can access this data here and contact me for more information.