Affiliated Faculty

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 from Harvard University in 1999. Her research is in development economics, with a particular focus ...

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 economics with a focus on the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, social norms and ethnic diversity. Lucia was ...

Livia Alfonsi

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Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income settings, with a particular emphasis on barriers to youth employment and female labor market participation. ...

Giacomo Battiston

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Giacomo obtained his PhD in Economics from Bocconi University and is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova. His research interests lie at the intersection between development economics and political economy, with a part ...

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 and she was a PODER research fellow at IIES (Stockholm University) in 2016-17. Her research is in lab ...

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 Economics in 2020. Her research is in development and organisational economics, with a focus on the w ...

Erika Deserranno

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Erika Deserranno is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on the intersection of development, personnel, and organizational economics. Erika is working on issues related to the selection, recruitm ...

Sarah Eichmeyer

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Sarah Eichmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. Her research spans the areas of public/health economics and political economy. She works on topics related to poverty, health, and wellbeing, as well as poli ...

Miguel Espinosa

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Miguel Espinosa is an Assistant Professor of the Management Department at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from the LSE. Before coming to Bocconi, he was Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at UPompeu Fabra in Barcelon ...

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 Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD Rady. His research focuses on development economics, behavioral economics, ...

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, behavioral economics, and organizational economics in both developed and developing countries. He is c ...

Selene Ghisolfi

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Selene Ghisolfi is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She works in development economics, behavioural biases and social norms. Her current research evaluates the role of fairness preferences and bargaining power on the implementation ...

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 counterfactual policy analysis of individual and multilateral decision making under uncertainty-ambiguity ...

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 2016. His current research is on international migration, with a focus on dynamic aspects related to ...

Andrea Guariso

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Andrea Guariso is Assistant 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, with a ...

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 2011 and worked at Bocconi University between 2011-2020. His research is in development economics, wit ...

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 worked as an economist at the French Statistical Institute and at the Ministry of Labor. His researc ...

Marinella Leone

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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 devel ...

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, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Economics Department and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy ...

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 CLEAN in BAFFI-CAREFIN, and a Researcher at DONDENA. He has published several articles in internati ...

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 ...

Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra

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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 focuses on measuring and understanding the determinants of various forms of inequalities, including thos ...

Awa Ambra Seck

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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. in Political Economy and Government (Economics track). In 20 ...

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 of Leuven and she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University and Visiting Re ...

Iris Steenkamp

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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 focuses on the intersection between business, marketing, and development. In coll ...

Michela M. Tincani

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Michela Tincani is Associate Professor at University College London. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is in the economics of education, with a focus on college access, non-financial barriers to educa ...

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 entrepreneurship, human capital development, networks and financial access. He was Assistant Professor at Boc ...

Mahima Vasishth

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Mahima is a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies, Bocconi University. She obtained her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Irvine in 2023. She is interested in the fields of Labor, Development a ...

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), Essex (UK), Cornell (USA), and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He is the aut ...

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 University in 2011. Her research focuses on economics of the family, as well as labor and development economics.