Role
Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and director of the Invernizzi Center for Social Policy Impact, Research and Evalutation (INSPIRE) and the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies (LEAP).
Bio
Michela Carlana graduated in Economics and Business from the University of Padua in 2012 and earned a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2018, completing visiting periods and international research fellowships including at UCLA, Harvard University and IIES-Stockholm University.
After being Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, she became Professor of Economics at Bocconi University in 2026. She is affiliated with INSPIRE-LEAP, IGIER, NBER, ROCKWOOL Foundation, J-PAL, IZA@LISER, CESifo, and CEPR.
Her research focuses on labor economics and human capital accumulation, particularly analyzing gender stereotypes in education. She also studies the link between immigration and education and how exposure to waves of migration influences native-born family formation and occupational choices, using historical data.