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Mara Squicciarini

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Mara Squicciarini is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University ...
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Miguel Espinosa

Miguel Espinosa

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Miguel Espinosa is an Assistant Professor of the Management Department at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from the LSE. Before co...
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Thomas Le Barbanchon

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Thomas Le Barbanchon is associate professor of economics at Bocconi. He received a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2012. Before 2012, he ...
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Lucia Corno

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Lucia Corno is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi. Her research is in development econo...
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Alexia Delfino

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Alexia Delfino is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School of E...
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Nicola Limodio

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Nicola Limodio is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from LSE in Summer 2017. In spring 2018, h...
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Diego Ubfal

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Diego Ubfal is an Economist in the World Bank's Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab. His research is in development economics, with focus on entrepren...
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Erika Deserranno

Erika Deserranno

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Erika Deserranno is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on the intersection of development, pe...
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Giacomo Battiston

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Giacomo obtained his PhD in Economics from Bocconi University and is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova. His research int...
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Eliana La Ferrara

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Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics...
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Livia Alfonsi

Livia Alfonsi

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Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income setting...
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Marinella Leone

Marinella Leone

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Marinella Leone is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Sussex in 2013 and wo...
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Alessandra Voena

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Alessandra Voena's is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Stanford University and she received her PhD in economics from Stanford University i...
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Jared Gars

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Jared Gars is a researcher at LEAP and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. His current research is on agriculture, be...
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Selim Gulesci

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Selim Gulesci is an Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He received his PhD in Economics from London School of Economics in 20...
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Andrea Guariso

Andrea Guariso

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Andrea Guariso is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bicocca University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 2016 and w...
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Mahima Vasishth

Mahima Vasishth

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Mahima is a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies, Bocconi University. She obtained her Ph.D. in economics from t...
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Javier Garcìa Brazales

Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra

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Javier is a post-doctoral researcher at LEAP, which he joined in September 2022 after receiving his PhD in Economics from CEMFI (Spain). His work focu...
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Sarah Eichmeyer

Sarah Eichmeyer

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Sarah Eichmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. Her research spans the areas of public/health economics and po...
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Selene Ghisolfi

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Selene Ghisolfi is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She works in development economics, behavioural biases and social norms. Her cur...
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