After receiving her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, in 2007 she started as a postdoctoral scholar in the economics department of the University of Chicago. Dr. Maximiano's research interests lie in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics, labor economics, economics of education, and organizational economics. Her projects span various issues and are built on both laboratory and field experiments and microeconometric tools to investigate questions related to social preferences and reciprocity, education and training, incentive systems, and gender and culture differences in economic decisions.