ALESSANDRA CASARICO

ALESSANDRA CASARICO

Courses a.y. 2025/2026

Biographical note

I am Associate Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University and member of the Dondena Research Center on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, where I coordinate the Social Inclusion Lab (SILab). I am Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE Department of Social Policy (2024-2027) and member of the Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub (WISPPRH).

Since September 2022 I am the Academic Director of the World Bachelor in Business, a triple degree program developed by Bocconi, USC University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and HKUST Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

I am Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and elected member of the ECINEQ council.

I am Research Fellow at CESifo Munich.

I received a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.


Research interests

My main research interests fall in the area of gender and public economics.


Selected Publications

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Rizzica, Lucia
Women in economics: The role of gendered references at entry in the profession
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2025

Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore
Exploring gender inequality: firm contribution and policy effects
LSE PUBLIC POLICY REVIEW, 2025

Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore
What firms do: gender inequality in linked employer-employee data
JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS, 2024

Casarico, Alessandra; Del Rey, Elena; Silva, Jose I.
Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, 2023

Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore
Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, 2023

Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, 2022

Alessandra Casarico; Salvatore Lattanzio; Paola Profeta
Women and local public finance
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2022

Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco
A field experiment on fundraising to support independent information
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 2021

Audinga Baltrunaite; Alessandra Casarico; Paola Profeta; Giulia Savio
Let the voters choose women
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, 180, 2019

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Casarico, Alessandra; Voitchovsky, Sarah
Top incomes and the gender divide
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, 2018

Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso
What drives the legalization of immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, 2018

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro
Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, 2017

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Casarico, Alessandra; Uebelmesser, Silke
A critical comparison of migration policies: entry fee versus quota
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, 2017

Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela
On the regional labor market determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
REGIONAL STUDIES, 2016

Arachi, Giampaolo; Bucci, Valeria; Casarico, Alessandra
Tax structure and macroeconomic performance
INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, 2015