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New funding at LEAP!

ALEXIA DELFINO WON FUNDING FROM CEPR AND UKAID FOR A PROJECT WITH NAVA ASHRAF AND EDWARD GLAESER CASTING SOME LIGHT ON HOW FAIR CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT EMPOWERS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS

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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...

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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Giacomo Battiston

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

Awa Ambra Seck

Awa Ambra Seck is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She graduated from Harvard in May 2023 with a Ph.D. i...

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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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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...

Erika Deserranno

Erika Deserranno

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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Mara Squicciarini

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

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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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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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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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Pamela Giustinelli

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

Livia Alfonsi

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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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...

Marinella Leone

Marinella Leone

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

Sarah Eichmeyer

Sarah Eichmeyer

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

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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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Selene Ghisolfi

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

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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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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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