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Current Position

2014-present   Professor of Economics, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex

Previous employment

2012 2014       Reader, Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex

2011-2012       Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex

2008- 2011      Research Fellow, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex

2005-2008       Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex

2004-2005       Visiting Scholar, Centre for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley  

2002-2004       Junior Research Fellow in Economics, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford 

 Other appointments

Since 2024 Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences

2023-2024 President of the European Society of Population Economics 

2018-2020       Director of Research, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex

2014-2017       Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A

2014-2015       Visiting Professor at University College London, Department of Economics 

 Education

1999-2004        D.Phil. in Economics, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

1997-1999        M.Phil. in Economics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

1997-2000        B.A. in Economics and Banking, University of Siena (first class)

 Affiliations 

2018-present   Royal Economic Society Council

2012-2018       Member of the European Association of Labour Economists Executive Committee

2014-2017       Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Bergen

Since 2005        Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) Research Fellow 

 Academic supervision and teaching

Main supervisor for the following ISER PhD students: Tommaso Sartori and Sonkurt Sen (recently submitted). Previous supervisor for the following PhD students: Tina Rampino (2014), Angus Holford (2015), Laura Fumagalli (2015), Maria Elena Komodromou (2017); Greta Morando (2017); Franco Bonomi-Bezzo (2020); Enrico Rubolino (2020); Josh Fullard (2020); Sonkurt Sen (2021); MSc students: Victor Perez (2012-2013). External examiner for Ervin Prifti (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” 2013), Laura Gibson (University of Sheffield, 2015), Sarah Sander (University of Copenhagen, 2018), Esmee Zwiers (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 2019), Christian Crespo (LSE, 2019), and Maha Khan (York, 2021). 

Recent teaching: NCRM Modules on Impact Evaluation (November 2021) and Measuring and Analysing data on Subjective Expectations (March 2021). Module on Application of Data Analysis, EC959, University of Essex (2015-2018). Prior to joining the University of Essex I was at the University of Oxford where I was a college tutor in Economics  for: Queen’s College (2002-2004), Christ Church College (2001-2002), Pembroke College (1999-2001).

 Referee for scientific organizations

Economic and Social Research Council (Peer Review College), Italian Research Council, Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca for the evaluation of Italian Universities in Economics, National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (NISCHR), National Science Foundation (NSF), Nuffield Foundation, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Swiss National Science Foundation, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). 

Referee for Scientific Journals

American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, British Journal of Sociology, Demography, Economics of Education Review, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, Journal of Economic Inequalities, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Journal of Labor Economics,  Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, Industrial Relations, Labour, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of the Economics of the Household, Scottish Journal of Political Economy.