People

Michela Carlana

LEAP Director

Michela Carlana is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. Michela is the director of INSPIRE and LEAP.She received her PhD in Economics ...

Alessandra Voena

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Alessandra Voena's is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Stanford University and she received her PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2011. Her research focuses on economics of the family, as well as labor and development econo ...

Alexia Delfino

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Alexia Delfino is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2020. Her research is in development and organisational economics, with a focus on ...

Andrea Guariso

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Andrea Guariso is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bicocca University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 2016 and worked at Trinity College Dublin between 2016-2021. His research is in development economics, ...

Giacomo Battiston

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Giacomo Battiston is a Postdoctoral researcher at the ROCKWOOL Foundation in Berlin and a Research Associate of the Berlin School of Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from Bocconi University. His interests include political economy and ...

Devis Decet

LEAP Postdoctoral Researcher

Devis Decet is an economist with interests in development, environmental, political, and public economics. His research focuses on state capacity and on the challenges posed by climatic shocks and environmental conservation. He works as a Postdoctora ...

Diego Ubfal

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Diego Ubfal is a Senior Economist in the World Bank's Gender Group, where he contributes to the implementation of the 2024-2030 World Bank Group Gender Strategy. Diego leads the initiative to fast-track the Strategy in 26 Countries, and coordinate th ...

Edoardo Teso

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Edoardo Teso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, and an Associate Professor (untenured) in the MEDS Department of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University [on leave 2024-2026].He is also a ...

Eliana La Ferrara

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Past President of the Econometric Society and Program Director of Development Economics for the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is also a J-PAL Affi ...

Erika Deserranno

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Erika Deserranno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, and a visiting Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School ...

Francesca Miserocchi

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Francesca Miserocchi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Tilburg University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2024 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo ...

Iris Steenkamp

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Iris Steenkamp is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Marketing from London Business School. Her research explores the impact of marketing (as an intervention or a mechanism) in emerg ...

Jared Gars

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Jared Gars is an assistant professor at FRED, University of Florida. He is also an Assistant Director at the Joint Initiative of Latin American Experimental Economics. Jared received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. His ...

Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra is a lecturer at the University of Exeter Business School since September 2023. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies of Bocconi University. He received his P ...

Joseph-Simon Goerlach

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Joseph-Simon Goerlach joined the Department of Economics at Bocconi as an Assistant Professor after receiving a PhD from University College London in 2016. His current research is on international migration, with a focus on dynamic aspects relat ...

Livia Alfonsi

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Livia Alfonsi is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, a Research Affiliate at CID, CEPR, LEAP and IZA and an Invited Researcher at J-PAL. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.Livia studies labor markets in low-income settings.

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. In this role, he is responsible for policy outreach with partners and stakeholders and for improving LEAP's operational ...

Lucia Corno

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Lucia Corno is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance at Cattolica University, Milan and co-Founder of LEAP, at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University. She is also J-PAL Affiliate, Fel ...

Mara Squicciarini

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Mara Squicciarini is Avv. Giovanni Agnelli Associate Professor, at Bocconi University, Department of Economics. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Leuven and she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern ...

Marinella Leone

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

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 as Research Fellow at the Institute of Development studies until 2019. Her research is in ...

Michela M. Tincani

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Michela Tincani is Associate Professor at University College London. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on education access, non-financial barriers, and peer effects. She combines experime ...

Miguel Espinosa

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Miguel Espinosa is an Assistant Professor of the Management Department at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. Before joining Bocconi University, he was Assistant Professor in the Economics Departm ...

Nicola Limodio

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Nicola Limodio is an Associate Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. Nicola earned his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017 and he had the opportunity to visit other institutions like Princeton Univ ...

Pamela Giustinelli

LEAP Non-Resident Affiliate

Pamela Giustinelli is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of Padova. She is an applied microeconometrician interested in uncertainty, heterogeneity, and measurement. Her research explores the economics and econometrics of individua ...

Paolo Pinotti

LEAP Resident Affiliate

Paolo Pinotti is Endowed Chair in the Economic Analysis of Crime in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, Founder of CLEAN, and Coordinator of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He received his PhD in Economics from Univ ...