JEROME FRANS ADDA

JEROME FRANS ADDA

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I earned my Ph.D in Economics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) after studying biology at AgroParisTech and economics and statistics at ENSAE in Paris. I am a professor of Economics at Bocconi since 2014. Prior to that I was a Professor at the European University Institute (Florence) and at University College London. I have held visiting positions at Berkeley in 2006-07 and Princeton in 2024. I was a managing editor for the Review of Economic Studies, 2013-2017 and served again in 2021.


About

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There is more to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations”, with Paolo Pinotti and Giulia Tura. Accepted, Journal of Political Economy


Research interests

My research interests include Health Economics, Labor Economics and Macroeconomics. My main contributions have been on the effect of public policies on health behavior, the analysis of the spread of diseases, the links between income and health, the role of human capital on career choices and wage growth over the life cycle. Many of my papers have been published in journals such as the JPE, the AER, the QJE, ReStud, PNAS as well as journals in other disciplines.

Selected Publications

Adda, Jerome; Pinotti, Paolo; Tura, Giulia
There's more to marriage than love: the effect of legal status and cultural distance on intermarriages and separations
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, Forthcoming

Adda, Jerome Frans; Dustmann, Christian
Sources of wage growth
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2023

Adda, Jerome; Ottaviani, Marco
Grantmaking, grading on a curve, and the paradox of relative evaluation in nonmarkets
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 2024

Adda, Jerome Frans
Economic activity and the spread of viral diseases: evidence from high frequency data
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 2016

Adda, Jerome Frans; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien
The career costs of children
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2017

Adda, Jerome Frans; B. Mcconnell; I. Rasul
Crime and the depenalization of cannabis possession: evidence from a policing experiment
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2014

Jerome Adda; Yarine Fawaz
The health toll of import competition
ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 2020

Jerome Adda
Preventing the spread of antibiotic resistance
AEA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS, 2020