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
Women in economics: The role of gendered references at entry in the profession
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2025
Exploring gender inequality: firm contribution and policy effects
LSE PUBLIC POLICY REVIEW, 2025
What firms do: gender inequality in linked employer-employee data
JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS, 2024
Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, 2023
Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, 2023
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, 2022
Women and local public finance
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2022
A field experiment on fundraising to support independent information
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 2021
Let the voters choose women
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, 180, 2019
Top incomes and the gender divide
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, 2018
What drives the legalization of immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, 2018
Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, 2017
A critical comparison of migration policies: entry fee versus quota
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, 2017
On the regional labor market determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
REGIONAL STUDIES, 2016
Tax structure and macroeconomic performance
INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, 2015