Applied Micro

 Applied Microeconomics Group

Our research group fosters interactions among IGIER scholars working in development economics, economic history, health economics, industrial organization, labor economics, microeconometrics, and political economics.

Jerome Adda     Guido Alfani     Tito Boeri     Maristella Botticini
                   
Chiara Fumagalli     Vincenzo Galasso     Nicola Gennaioli     Eliana La Ferrara
                   
Tommaso Nannicini     Nicola Pavoni     Roberto Perotti      Michele Polo
                   
Guido Tabellini                  
                   
                   

What we study

  • conflict, ethnic fractionalization, the role of media, microcredit, human trafficking, land reforms, and policy experiments to evaluate the impact of incentive programs on educational outcomes;
  • Jewish economic history, marriage markets in comparative perspective, the economic consequences of plagues in the medieval and early modern periods;
  • business groups, regulation and antitrust, energy markets, economics of crime, interactions among economic changes and health outcomes;
  • labor markets, immigration in Europe, human capital, tax reforms, pensions and social security systems;
  • the role of politicians, the political economy of the welfare state and structural reforms, social capital and culture, social norms, and political institutions.