Alessandra Casarico

I am Associate Professor of Public Economics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. I am CESifo Research Fellow and member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Ifo, Munich. Between 2014 and 2018 I coordinated the Welfare State and Taxation Unit of the Dondena Research Centre on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi, of which I am now research fellow and member of the managerial board. I am a member of the Gender Committee of the Italian Economics Society.
I hold a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.
Research interests
My main research interests fall in the area of gender and public economics.
Selected Publications
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, 2022A field experiment on fundraising to support independent information
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 2021What drives the legalization of immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, 2018Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE, 2017A critical comparison of migration policies: entry fee versus quota
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, 2017On the regional labor market determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
REGIONAL STUDIES, 2016Teaching