Published in leading economic journals such as the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Management Science, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and the Economics of Education Review. Presented research at international conferences and academic seminars worldwide. Research has received mainstream media coverage from The Economist, The Guardian, Financial Times, and Forbes.
Research Experience
Worked as a consultant and researcher for several institutions, including the Development Research Group (DEC) and the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) at the World Bank, the Gender and Diversity Division at the Inter-American Development Bank, CeRP - Collegio Carlo Alberto, and LISER.
Education
Undergraduate and Master's degrees in Economics from the University of Turin in Italy; Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in the US; Postdoctoral Scholar at Vanderbilt University in the US.
Background
Research interests: LGBTQ+, Gender, Education, Machine Learning; Primary fields: Applied Microeconomics; Secondary fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics; About me: Senior Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter in the UK, also a Research Fellow at IZA and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization - GLO.
Miscellany
Chair of the European Economic Association Standing Committee on Minorities in Economics, helped manage the European Committee for LGBTQ+ Economists, and was a committee member of the Steering Group for the Royal Economic Society Diversity & Inclusion Network.