Patricia Apps是悉尼大学公共经济学教授，悉尼法学院，澳大利亚澳大利亚国家拒绝和UTS和澳大利亚社会科学院研究员。She was the elected President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) in 2006. Her research covers a range of areas in Public Economics and has appeared in leading international journals including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy.她是公共经济学和家庭的联合作者（剑桥大学出版社，2009年）。她于1999年10月加入IZA作为研究员。