ALESSANDRA CASARICO

Welcome to my home page!

I am an applied economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of public economics and gender economics. I am interested in the study of inequality, particularly from a gender perspective, its causes and the role of policy in addressing them.

My research relies on a mix of applied theory and empirical methods to explore policy-relevant issues. I use administrative data to document the extent and explore drivers of gender inequality along the distribution, with a particular focus on the top and on the role of firms. I study the under-representation of women in elite occupations, focusing on politics and academia. To study the sources of inequality in the economics profession, I use text as data and natural language processing tools to uncover sources of bias.

I am Associate Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University and member of the Dondena Research Center on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, where I coordinate the Social Inclusion Lab (SILab).

For the period 2024-2027 I am Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, Department of Social Policy.

Since September 2022 I am the Academic Director of the World Bachelor in Business, a triple degree program developed by Bocconi, USC University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and HKUST the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

I am Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and elected member of the ECINEQ council.

I am Research Fellow at CESifo Munich and I was member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ifo Institute from 2017-2024, Munich.

I am member of the Editorial Board of the information site www.lavoce.info and Deputy Editorial Director of the monthly magazine eco

I received a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Laurea (MSc) in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University.

NEWS

Accepted for publication!

Research Similarity and Women in Academia, with Piera Bello and Debora Nozza is fothcoming in The Economic Journal, link

Women in Economics: the Role of Gendered References at Entry in the Profession, with Audinga Baltrunaite and Lucia Rizzica is forthcoming in European Economic Review, link

Two new working papers out!

Rebalancing Power Asymmetries Within Firms: Evidence from Illegal Resignations, with C. Pavese and I. Ferrari, CESIfo working paper 11805, April

Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave, with E. Di Porto, J. Kopinska and S. Lattanzio, CESIfo working paper 11795, April

I coordinate at Bocconi a large scale project on Social Inclusion within the MUSA (Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action) project, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, 2022-2025. Have a look at our projects.