Departmental Seminar *in-person* - Oct 4th

*This seminar will take place in-person*

Eliana LA FERRARA is the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, where she also directs the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), of European Development Research Network (EUDN) and of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), as well as a J-PAL Affiliate and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) from 2016 to 2019 and President of the European Economic Association in 2018.

Her research focuses on Development Economics and Political Economics, particularly on the role of social factors in economic development. She has studied ethnic diversity, kin structure and social norms, and the effects of television on social outcomes. She has also investigated political constraints to development, with particular focus on violent conflict in Africa. Her work is regularly published in the top tier journals in economics. 

Eliana LA FERRARA will present a paper, joint with Erick BAUMGARTNER, Emily L. BREZA, Victor Hugo OROZCO-OLVERA, and Pedro ROSA DIAS, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:

The nerds, the cool and the central. Peer education and teen pregnancy in Brazil (paper to follow)

More about Eliana LA FERRARA and her research

Date: MONDAY, October 4th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405

The next Departmental Seminar will host Axel GOTTFRIES (University of Edinburgh) on October 11th.