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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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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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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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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 ...

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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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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Luca Privinzano

Associate Director of Research

Luca Privinzano is the Associate Director of Research at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies at Bocconi University, where he supports a...

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Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra

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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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...

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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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, h...

Michela M. Tincani

Michela Tincani is Associate Professor at University College London. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her resear...

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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 entrepren...

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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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Alessandra Voena

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

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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Mahima Vasishth

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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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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Miguel Espinosa

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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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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Iris Steenkamp

Iris Steenkamp is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Marketing from London Business Sch...

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