Institutional email: luca.fumarco(at)econ.muni.cz
Personal email: luca_fumarco(at)hotmail.it
ORCID: 0000-0002-6236-0197 (there, links to WoS and Scopus)
Institutional email: luca.fumarco(at)econ.muni.cz
Personal email: luca_fumarco(at)hotmail.it
ORCID: 0000-0002-6236-0197 (there, links to WoS and Scopus)
Benvenuta/o!
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Masaryk University (Brno, Czechia).
Research interests: Labour, health, education economics. My research core focuses on two broad topics: discrimination in the marketplace (e.g., labour, rental housing, service markets), and effects of within cohort age differences (i.e., age at school entry). I am specialized in designing field experiments.
Secondary affiliations: I am an IZA and GLO Fellow, J-PAL Invited researcher, and HEDG Affiliate. I am a member of the Masaryk University Experimental Economics Laboratory (MUEEL).
Habilitations to Associate Professor: Italian habilitation for Associate Professor (Professore di II Fascia) in Economia Politica (13/A1), and Politica Economica (13/A2). Candidate for Czech habilitation.
Latest updates
Reject and Resub. Judging by the Color of their Skin – Judges’ Implicit and Attention Discrimination in US Boxing. W/ A. Ahmed and V. Sivec (Jan 15, 2026)
R&R1 at JEL. Many-Economists project led by N. Hungtington-Klein and C. Portner (Nov 17, 2025)
R&R3 at JEL. Literature review on the economics of age at school start. W/ M. Cavallo, E. Dhuey, L. Halewyck, S. ter Meulen (Oct 30, 2025)
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