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Cecilia Machado is a graduate student in the Department of Economics at Columbia University. She has a M.Sc. in Economics from PUC-Rio, Brazil, and expects to receive her PhD degree in Columbia in May 2010. Her areas of interest include applied econometrics and labor economics, with emphasis on fertility and family economics. In applied econometrics, Cecilia studies how to construct non-parametric bounds on the average treatment effect when an instrument is available. In labor economics, she is interested in gender differences in the labor market, and family formation and dissolution. In her current work, Cecilia examines the effects that infertility insurance mandates have on labor market selection and its indirect effect on the female wage distribution.