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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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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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Selene Ghisolfi

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Selene Ghisolfi is a Post-Doc researcher at LEAP. She works in development economics, behavioural biases and social norms. Her current research evalua...
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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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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 Universi...
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Stefano Fiorin

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Stefano Fiorin is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson and he was a Post...
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Pamela Giustinelli

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Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics of Bocconi University. She is interested in modeling, empirical, and count...
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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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Paolo Pinotti

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Paolo Pinotti is Associate Professor in Economics at Bocconi, the Coordinator of the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation, the director of the research unit...
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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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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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Michela Carlana

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Michela Carlana is Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge (USA). She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2018 a...
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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 entre...
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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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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,...
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Joseph-Simon Goerlach

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Joseph-Simon Goerlach joined the Department of Economics at Bocconi as an Assistant Professor after receiving a PhD from University College London in ...
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Fernando Vega-Redondo

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Fernando Vega-Redondo is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. He has also taught at the Universities of Alicante (Spain), Pompeu Fabra (Spain...
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