María Florencia Pinto is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor, and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina, and a Professor at the undergraduate and graduate level at the same university. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and previously worked at the World Bank. Her research interests are primarily in Gender Economics, Labor Economics, and the Economics of Education.