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Scuola pandemia e resilienza 31 gennaio 2022, 14:00 - 18:00

School, Pandemic and Resilience

LEAP is pleased to announce the upcoming event: SCHOOL, PANDEMIC AND RESILIENCE, to discuss the challenges the pandemic has posed to the Italian schooling systems and potential solutions.

Call for Papers - Workshop on Networks and Development - Naples, 21-22 April 2022

Workshop on Networks and Development: Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Networks and Development, held on April 21-22/2022 in Naples (Italy). Submit your paper by February 15th, 2022.

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Incentivizing Land Market Participation in Kenya

Diva Barisone on L.Casaburi's seminar: novel insights on mechanisms behind Subsaharian Africa's land market imperfections.

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LEAPdevelopment

New #leapdevelopment upcoming event: SCHOOL, PANDEMIC AND RESILIENCE, organized with @FondCariplo, to discuss the challenges the pandemic has posed to the Italian schooling systems and potential solutions. Info: https://t.co/UW5lljzlfm, Register: https://t.co/YtgxHc2BWb

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Andrea Guariso

Andrea Guariso

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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Jared Gars

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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Pamela Giustinelli

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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Eliana La Ferrara

Scientific Director

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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Diego Ubfal

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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Nicola Limodio

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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Selim Gulesci

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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Stefano Fiorin

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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Fernando Vega-Redondo

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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Michela Carlana

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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Mara Squicciarini

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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Lucia Corno

Executive Director

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

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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Thomas Le Barbanchon

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

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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Paolo Pinotti

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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Alessandra Voena

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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Joseph-Simon Goerlach

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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