Thierry Magnac has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse since 2005. His research agenda is set on empirical issues in the economics of education, labor and housing, and on methodological issues in microeconometrics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2012 regarding the structural econometric modelling of the dynamics of household behavior. He is one of the coeditors of the Journal of Applied Econometrics and he is a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Applied Econometrics.