LUCIA CORNO
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Lucia Corno is Professor of Economics at Cattolica University, (Milan). She is Co-Founder and past Executive Director (2016–2026) of the Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University. She is also a Research Fellow at Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), RFBerlin and elected Council member of the European Economic Association (EEA) and Executive Committee member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN).
Lucia received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University. She was a graduate visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) in Stockholm. Before joining Cattolica, she held academic positions at University College London and Queen Mary University of London. In the 2024-25 academic year, she was a visiting professor at Harvard Kennedy School.
Her research focuses on understanding constraints for economic development in low income countries, with a particular emphasis on harmful gender norms. She has conducted extensive fieldwork across sub-Saharan Africa, studying practices such as female genital cutting, child marriage, and breast-ironing. She also studies housing poverty and homelessness in Italy and the US. Lucia regularly collaborates with governments and international organizations to evaluate the effectiveness of antipoverty policies.
Her work has been published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Economic Journal, and American Economic Journal: Applied.
She is the recipient of an Economic Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2020–2025) and a Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS) Consolidator Grant (2025–2028).
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