PAOLA PROFETA

At the undergraduate level, I teach and coordinate the course of public economics for the degree in economics and management (CLEAM) which includes 8 parallel classes. I also teach the elective course Diversity Management and Policy.

At the graduate level, I teach the course of Welfare and Public Economics at the first year of the Msc of Politics and Policy Analysis. I also teach a short part of the elective course Welfare and Politics.

At the PhD level, I teach the course Inequality, Gender and Policy.

I am Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability and full professor of public economics. I am also the Director of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality

I received a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a BA in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi. I have spent research periods, among the others, at Columbia University of New York, Nuffield College-Oxford, Trinity College-Dublin, CESifo-Munich, University of Edinburgh and USI-Lugano.

I joined Bocconi as associate professor, before I was assistant professor at University of Pavia and post-doc researcher at CORE-Université Catholique de Louvain.

I am member of the board of management of the International Institute of Public Finance and of the Women in Economics Committee of the European Economic Association. I am affiliated also with CHILD (Collegio Carlo Alberto) and CESifo and I am scientific advisor of UniCredit Foundation. I am part of the editorial board of International Tax and Public Finance, European Journal of Political Economy, CESifo Economic Studies, Economics.

I was President of the European Public Choice Society and member of the Board of the Italian Society of Public Economics.

I collaborate with the Italian Minister of Equal Opportunities in several committees and I am Italian representative at the Expert forum of EIGE.

I write editorials for Il Sole 24 Ore and Corriere della Sera. I am scientific advisor of several associations for the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

 

Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara
Do board gender quotas matter? Selection, performance and stock market effects
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 2022

Profeta, Paola; Woodhouse, Eleanor Florence
Electoral rules, women's representation and the qualification of politicians
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES, 2022

Fanelli, Ester; Profeta, Paola
Fathers' involvement in the family, fertility and maternal employment: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
DEMOGRAPHY, 58 (5): 1931–1954, 2021

Angelici, Marta; Profeta, Paola
Smart working: work flexibility without constraints
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 2023

Galasso, Vincenzo; Pons, Vincent; Profeta, Paola; Becher, Michael; Brouard, Sylvain; Foucault, Martial
Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: panel evidence from eight countries
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117 (44), 27285-27291, 2020

Daniela Del Boca; Noemi Oggero; Paola Profeta; Mariacristina Rossi
Women’s and men’s work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD, 18(4): 1001-1017, 2020

Paola Profeta
Gender equality and public policy : measuring progress in Europe
2020

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

Baiardi, Donatella; Profeta, Paola; Puglisi, Riccardo; Scabrosetti, Simona
Tax policy and economic growth: does it really matter?
INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, 26(2): 282-316, 2019

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola
When the state mirrors the family: the design of pension systems
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, 16(6): 1712–1763, 2018

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Bello, Piera; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola
Gender quotas and the quality of politicians
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, 118:62-74, 2014