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Biographical Sketch

I was born on December 10, 1959 in Milan, where I lived (with the exception of one year ''wasted'' after high school in the Italian Army) until the end of my graduate studies at Bocconi University in 1985. I graduated under the supervision of Professor Mario Monti with a thesis on the effects of wage subsidies on unemployment. After graduation I seriously considered the possibility to become an alpine guide also because, while teaching ski-mountaineering in the Milan Alpine Club school, I met my future wife Simonetta: mountains seemed to have much better things to offer than economics.

Perhaps unfortunately, however, my advisor convinced me to apply for a Ph.D. program in the US and I was admitted at MIT, in Cambridge (USA). It was hard to give up this opportunity, and, contemporaneously, the mountains had been giving a very un-welcoming signal in the form of a bad avalanche accident. Moreover, Simonetta received a very attractive offer from the Harvard School of Public Health (on the other side of the Charles river with respect to MIT) which allowed her to continue in a wonderful environment her research on the relationship between diet and cancer. The possibility to go together to the US, working in two of the best research institutions in the world, looked really like ''un segno della Provvidenza''.

The four years in Cambridge were a tough but terrific experience that gave me new tools and new passion for research in labor economics, lots of friends now scattered everywhere in the world and the first child Matteo, born in 1989. The decision to come back to Italy after the Doctoral graduation in 1990 (with a thesis on flexible compensation as a risk-sharing device under the supervision of Prof. Robert Gibbons) was not an easy one. The possibility to continue the US experience was really attractive from a professional point of view, but Italy was at least equally attractive along several other dimensions, including child raising which was expected not to be irrelevant (and the expectation was rational as the events later showed ...).

The contemporaneous foundation of two new research institutions in Milan induced the decision to come back: the IGIER research center at Bocconi University, started by Prof. Francesco Giavazzi with the goal of attracting to Italy economists with a foreign Ph.D., and the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, which was searching experts in epydemiological studies of diet and cancer. These joint opportunities gave a forceful sign that it was time to come back from the States.

From 1990 until 1997, I have been teaching and doing research at IGIER, Bocconi University, while Simonetta has worked at IEO, succeding, at the same time, to give birth to 3 more children, Martina in 1990, Lucia in 1992 and Giacomo in 1997 (do not worry: we know what contraceptives are ...). Both parents also managed to maintain some contact with the Alps, most often bringing along the entire crew (which so far has not complained).

The experience as a Jean Monnet Fellow during 1997 clearly showed that EUI is a wonderful environment where to do research and teach. Very luckily, Florence also proved convenient for the working opportunities of Simonetta, and needless to say it appeared optimal for the kids. The decision to accept the EUI offer and to stay here for a longer term was therefore an easy one this time, even if ski-mountaineering had to be turned into ... mountain biking.

Post scriptum, October 2006: The 8 years experience at EUI is over and I moved to the University of Bologna where I found another wonderful environment of colleagues and students. But we could not give up our "Tuscan home" where we continue to live. No more biking to and from work, though: this is what I regret the most.

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Full CV

My CV can be viewed/downloaded from here (as a pdf file). It is available in English and in Italian.

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Papers in Progress

2009	"Giudici in Affanno" (with Decio Coviello and Nicola Persico)
2009	"Don't spread yourself too thin. Parallel working and the risk of overwhelm " ( with Decio Coviello and Nicola Persico).
2009	"College cost and time to complete a degree: Evidence from tuition discontinuities" (with Pietro Garibaldi, Francesco Giavazzi and Enrico Rettore).
2009	"Gender based taxation and the division of family chores " (with Alberto Alesina and Loukas Karabarbounis).
2008	"Too Old to Work, too Young to Retire? " (with Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimuller).
2009	"Trust and Trustworthiness Among Europeans: South - North Comparison" (with Fabian Bornhorst, Oliver Kirchkamp, Karl Schlag, and Eyal Winter).

[A full list of publications is available in my CV].

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Downloadable Published Papers since January 1999 (PDF files)

For the following papers, up to the actual date of publication the links are connecting to the forthcoming paper on the present site. --- After publication, the links will connect directly to the Publisher's site and/or to the working paper version.

2009	"The political economy of intergenerational income mobility " ( with Loukas Karabarbounis and Enrico Moretti). Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
2009	"Does the color of the collar matter? Employment and earnings after a plant closure" (with Oliver Ruf, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimuller), Economic Letters, forthcoming.
2009	"Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap" (with Enrico Moretti), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(1) 183-218.
2009	"Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children" (with Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila and Ana Fernandes), forthcoming on the Journal of Population Economics
2008	"Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach" (with Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila and Ana Fernandes), forthcoming on the The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
2008	"How often should you open the door? Optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents" (with Gerd Muehlheuser),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (67) 820-831
2008	"From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: What can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?" (with Fabrizia Mealli and Tommaso Nannicini),  Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 23, pp. 305 - 327.
2007	"Unemployment and Consumption Near and Far Away From the Mediterranean?" (with Samuel Bentolila),  Journal of Population Economics , vol. 21, pp. 255 - 280
2006	"Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure" (with Armin Falk), Journal of Labor Economics, January, 24 (1), 39-57.
2005	"Temporary Work Agencies in Italy: A Springboard to Permanent Employment?" (with Fabrizia Mealli and Tommaso Nannicini), Giornale degli Economisti, September, 64 (1), 1-27.
2005	"Lo splendido isolamento dell'universita' italiana" (with Stefano Gagliarducci, Giovanni Peri e Roberto Perotti), in Tito Boeri, Riccardo Faini, Andrea Ichino, Giuseppe Pisauro, Carlo Scarpa (ed.) Oltre il Declino, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
2005	"The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort - A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation" (with Regina T. Riphahn), Journal of the European Economic Association, March, 3 (1), 120-143.
2005	"Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations"(with Antonio Filippin), Labour Economics, February, 12 (1), 125-145.
2005	"Reconciling Motherhood and Work. Evidence from Time Use Data In Three Countries" (with Anna Sanz de Galdeano), in Hamermesh, Dan, and Gerard Pfann, (Eds.), The Economics of Time Use, Amsterdam, Elsevier.
2004	"Absenteeism and Employment Protection: Three Case Studies"(with Regina Riphahn), Swedish Economic Policy Review, 11 (1), 95-114.
2004	"The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War Two" (with Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Journal of Labor Economics, January, 22 (1), 57-86.
2004	"How Large is the "Brain Drain" from Italy"(with Giovanni Peri and Sascha Becker), Giornale degli Economisti, April, 73 (1), 1-32.
2003	"Are Judges Biased by Labor Market Conditions?" (with Michele Polo and Enrico Rettore), European Economic Review, October, 47 (5), 913-944 .
2003	"Le perplessita' di un utilizzatore di dati di fronte al "Codice di deontologia e buona condotta per il trattamento di dati personali per scopi statistici e scientifici" , Rivista Statistica, Ottobre-Dicembre, 4, 673-683
2002	"Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Based on Propensity Scores" (with Sascha Becker), The Stata Journal , 2 (4), 358-377.
2001	Luchino Brucchi (ed.) Manuale di Economia del Lavoro, Bologna, Il Mulino, Settembre
2001	Il Problema della Causalità. Una Introduzione Generale ed un Esempio". Capitolo 20 in: Luchino Brucchi (ed.), Manuale di Economia del Lavoro, Bologna, Il Mulino, Settembre
2001	Productivity, Seniority and Wages" (with Luca Flabbi), Labour Economics, June, 8 (3), June.
2000	"Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm" (with Giovanni Maggi), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 115 (3), 1057-1090.
1999	"More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US" (with Daniele Checchi and Aldo Rustichini), Journal of Public Economics, December 74 (3), 351-393.
1999	"Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An Exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments" (with Rudolf Winter-Ebmer},European Economic Review, April 43(4-6), 889-901.
1999	"Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm" (with Pietro Ichino). Ch. 3 in: John C. Haltiwanger et al. (eds.),The Creation and Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data, North-Holland, Elsevier Science B.V., 59-77.

[A full list of publications is available in my CV].

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My Research Interests

Economics of gender

Group interactions and network effects.

Economics of education.

Intergenerational social mobility and income inequality.

Rigidity and flexibility in European labor markets.

Labor-Law and Economics.

Family structure and unemployment in southern Europe.

Personnel Economics.

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My PhD Students

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

Elisabetta Olivieri --- "Labour Economics; Behavioral Economics"
Francesco Manaresi --- "Labour Economics; Behavioral Economics"

FROM THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

Sascha Becker --- "Education and the Labor Market in Germany and Italy". (Sascha's Homepage.)
Fabian Bornhorst --- "Experimental Methods and Simulation Techniques". (Fabian's Homepage.)
Silvia Condouto de Sousa --- "Femal Labor Market Participation. Towards Solving the Portuguese Puzzle."
Decio Coviello --- "Determinants of the length of Civil Trials in Italy ".
Antonio Filippin --- "Discrimination and Workers' Expectations".
Stefano Gagliarducci --- "Welfare and Transition Patterns in Temporary Employment"(Stefano's Homepage.)
Alexander Muravyev --- "Human Capital Externalities in Russia".
Tommaso Nannicini --- "Temporary Work". (Tommaso's Homepage.)
Tuomas Pekkarinen --- "Job Complexity and Wages".
Ana Sanz de Galeano --- "Gender Differences in Job Satisfaction".
Marcello Sartarelli --- "Evaluation of the Performance of Academic Institutions ".
Guido Schwerdt --- "The cost of Job Loss".
Frank Siebern --- "Contributions to the Econometric Analysis of Labour Markets in Transition".
Joao Silva --- "Local Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Portugal".
OlmoSilva --- "Entrepreneurial Choice".
Asunción Soro Bonmati --- "Labour Market Transitions of Young Workers: A Comparison of the German and Italian Cases".
Konstantinos Tatsiramos--- "The Effect of Unemployment Insurance and Aging on Residential Mobility and Labor Market Dynamics".
Jarkko Turunen --- "Unemployment and Labor Market Policy in Transition".
Daniela Vuri --- "Fertility and Divorce".
Anzelika Zaiceva --- "Migration Pressure and EU Enlargement".

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PhD Program in Economics at the University of Bologna

Since 2008 I am the Director of the PhD program in economics offered by the Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche of the Universita' di Bologna .

On this website you can find all the information on the program and in particular on how to apply.

 

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Lecture Notes and Teaching Material

You can view/download (PDF files) two lecture notes used in the courses that I currently teach at EUI.

1.	"The problem of causality in microeconometrics (old and longer version) "
2.	"The problem of causality in microeconometrics (new version) "
3	"Topics in Micro-Econometrics"
4.	"Personnel Economics"
5.	"Economia delle risorse umane" (for the attached material, if you are a unibo student, go here)
6.	"Introduction to Econometrics" (other linked material can be downloaded here). This is the material for Advanced Econometrics Module 1A of the LMEC-Bologna

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Stata programs for ATT estimation based on propensity score matching

Below you can download Version 2.0 of the "Stata programs for ATT estimation based on propensity score matching" written by Sascha O. Becker and Andrea Ichino.

These programs may be used and distributed free of charge by anyone if credit is given. They have been tested fairly well but they come with no guarantee and the authors assume no liability for their use or misuse.

DOCUMENTATION

Version 1 of the programs (for Stata 7) was documented in
"Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores", The Stata Journal (2002) Vol.2, No.4, pp. 358-377.
Here, you can download the working paper version of the SJ paper.

Version 2.0 allows for the bootstrap options in Stata 8 and allows for the identification of matched pairs in nearest neighbor matching. Furthermore, we have improved some of the output produced by the programs. More detail is in the respective help files.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMS

Version 2.02
Within Stata, you can type -net search propensity score- and follow the link.
A second option is to download the *.ado, the *.hlp files and the working paper version of the SJ paper in a single .zip file here: pscore202.zip.

Version 1
If you still use Stata 7 you can download Version 1 here: pscore129.zip.

We are continuously improving our programs: please check out for updates. The current version is dated May 13, 2005.

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Brucchi Luchino (ed.)"Economia del Lavoro", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001

Here you can visit the site of the labor economics textbook edited by Giorgio BRUnello, Daniele cheCCHI, Claudio LUCifora and Andrea IchINO.

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Articoli su quotidiani e consulenze di politca economica

 

Consulenze

Dicembre 2009

Invalsi

"Un sistema di misurazione degli apprendimenti per la valutazione delle scuole " (Daniele Checchi, Andrea Ichino e Giorgio Vittadini). Vedi anche le i lucidi di presentazione della proposta.

 

Articoli

27 novembre 2009	www.lavoce.info	"Quel paracadute chiamato processo breve" (Alessandro Campo, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino e Nicola Persico)
29 ottobre 2009	Il sole24ore	"La mitologia del paese fermo" (Andrea Ichino)
22 ottobre 2009	Repubblica	"Piu asili e servizi sociali non aiutano la parita tra i sessi" (Intervista a Andrea Ichino)
12 ottobre 2009	Corriere della sera	"Il metereologo e l'economista" (Andrea Ichino)
13 luglio 2009	Il sole24ore	"Il Truman show delle riforme " (Andrea Ichino)
17 giugno 2009	Il sole24ore	"Il fuoco di paglia della Gelmini " (Andrea Ichino)
24 marzo 2009	Il sole24ore	"Medicina: non punire i migliori" (Andrea Ichino e Ignazio Marino)
6 marzo 2009	Il sole24ore	"Ancora l'8 marzo " (Andrea Ichino)
28 gennaio 2009	Il sole24ore	"Salari e profitti: i dati nascosti " (Valentina Adorno, Giovanni Pica e Andrea Ichino). Vedi anche le Schede allegate all'articolo e un commento di Pierluigi Bersani e Antonio Misiani.
19 gennaio 2009	Corriere della sera	"Ricetta Maldini per l'universita' " (Andrea Ichino)
19 dicembre 2008	Il sole24ore	"Pensionamento posticipato per le donne in cambio di meno tasse " (Alberto Alesina eAndrea Ichino)
31 novembre 2008	Il sole24ore	"Tagli e merito: per il PD occasione mancata " (Andrea Ichino)
25 ottobre 2008	Il sole24ore	"Atenei, caos per una non riforma " (Andrea Ichino)
12 settembre 2008	Il sole24ore	"Scuola, un test sulle riforme " (Andrea Ichino)
23 luglio 2008	Il sole24ore	"Se l'esame non serve a studenti e insegnanti " (Andrea Ichino)
6 giugno 2008	Il sole24ore	"Quei talenti negati dal contratto sociale " (Andrea Ichino)
3 giugno 2008	Il sole24ore	"Il nuovo fisco trascura le donne " (Alberto Alesina e Andrea Ichino)
24 maggio 2008	Il sole24ore	"Contratti, riforma alla tedesca " (Andrea Ichino)
18 aprile 2008	Il sole24ore	"Se valuti bene ricerchi meglio " (Andrea Ichino)
4 aprile 2008	Il sole24ore	"Ricerca, troppi fondi a pioggia " (Andrea Ichino)
8 marzo 2008	Il sole24ore	"Il sindacato ha un futuro se impara a dialogare " (Andrea Ichino)
4 marzo 2008	Il sole24ore	"Tra concretezze e ambiguita': programmi elettorali a confronto" (Alberto Alesina e Andrea Ichino)
22 febbraio 2008	Il sole24ore	"Colpire l'assenteista protegge il piu' debole " (Andrea Ichino)
19 gennaio 2008	Il sole24ore	"Meno tasse sul lavoro (e alle donne ancora meno) " (Alberto Alesina e Andrea Ichino)
28 dicembre 2007	Il sole24ore	"Troppi tabu' su merito e produttivita' " (Andrea Ichino)
18 novembre 2007	Il sole24ore	"I nipoti di Mao e quelli del '68 italiano " (Andrea Ichino)
1 novembre 2007	Il sole24ore	"Chi frena i cervelli stranieri " (Andrea Ichino)
22 ottobre 2007	Corriere della sera	"La conta dei precari " (Andrea Ichino)
11 settembre 2007	Il sole24ore	"Scuola: il dirigismo che resiste " (Andrea Ichino)
25 luglio 2007	Il sole24ore	"Aumentare l'eta' pensionabile in cambio di bonus fiscali" (Andrea Ichino)
22 maggio 2007	Il sole24ore	"Ridurre le tasse alle donne non costerebbe un euro " (Alberto Alesina e Andrea Ichino)
15 aprile 2007	Il sole24ore	"Con tasse piu' leggere per le donne anche il fisco ci guadagna" (Alberto Alesina e Andrea Ichino)
27 marzo 2007	Il sole24ore	"Meno tasse sul lavoro femminile, senza perdere gettito" (Alberto Alesina e Andrea Ichino)
21 settembre 2007	www.lavoce.info	"Se la selezione resta fuori dalla scuola " (Andrea Ichino)
22 febbraio 2007	www.lavoce.info	"Perche' serve la valutazione individuale dei lavoratori nel settore pubblico" (Andrea Ichino)
31 marzo 2006	www.lavoce.info	"Perche' il dibattito politico prescinde dai dati" (Andrea Ichino)
8 maggio 2006	www.lavoce.info	"Il contratto temporaneo limitato" (Andrea Ichino)
3 gennaio 2006	www.lavoce.info	"Perdita di credibilita': ma quanto costi" (Andrea Ichino)
27 giugno 2005	www.lavoce.info	"Le retribuzioni perverse dell'univerista' italiana" (Stefano Gagliarducci, Andrea Ichino, Giovanni Peri e Roberto Perotti)
18 aprile 2005	www.lavoce.info	"L'Istat che vorremmo" (Andrea Ichino)
25 maggio 2004	www.lavoce.info	"Ancora sul codice deontologico" (Andrea Ichino)
30 marzo 2004	www.lavoce.info	"Un trampolino verso un impiego stabile?" (Andrea Ichino, Tommaso Nannicini e Fabrizia Mealli)
10 novembre 2003	www.lavoce.info	"Banche dati solo sui giornali" (Andrea Ichino)
21 ottobre 2003	www.lavoce.info	"Se la privacy non tutela la ricerca" (Andrea Ichino e Nicola Rossi)
6 marzo 2003	www.lavoce.info	"Il computer nuovo nella scuola vecchia" (Andrea Ichino)
6 febbraio 2003	www.lavoce.info	"I costi di lungo periodo della guerra" (Andrea Ichino)
30 luglio 2002	www.lavoce.info	"Etica, problemi di costituzionalita', e sperimentazione statistica: a proposito delle deroghe all'Art. 18" (Andrea Ichino)
29 agosto 1997	Corriere della sera	"Il Mezzogiorno e la cultura delle regole" (Andrea Ichino e Pietro Ichino).

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Trasparenza del rapporto di lavoro pubblico: redditi e imposte

Sono riportate qui sotto le componenti del mio reddito lordo e le imposte sul reddito stesso, relative agli ultimi anni.

ANNO	REDDITO DA LAVORO DIPENDENTE	REDDITO DA LAVORO AUTONOMO	REDDITO NON SOGGETTO A TASSAZIONE ITALIANA*	REDDITO DA FABBRICATI E TERRENI	IRPEF TOTALE VERSATA
2005	2777	8233	103000	4602	1374
2006	7074	9694	139934	4945	1920
2007	46729	13944	0	5136	20736
2008	53628	5550	12400	7107	20249

* Si tratta essenzialmente dei redditi percepiti dallo European University Institute al netto del prelievo effettuato dalla Comunita' Europea.

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Scialpinismo

Qui potete scaricare alcune dispense preparate dagli Istruttori della Scuola di Alpinismo Tita Piaz del Club Alpino Italiano, Sezione di Firenze:

Metamorfismi ed evoluzione della neve

Preparazione e condotta di una gita in relazione al pericolo di valanghe

Autosoccorso in caso di valanga

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Vela

Qui potete visitare il sito del Circolo Nautico Mugello e scaricare un set di

Appunti per il conseguimento della patente nautica

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Office hours

Typically WEDNESDAY from 14.30 to 16.30 in Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna

 

On Wednesday November 25 office hours will be in the morning from 10.00 to 13.00.

 

Please contact me at andrea.ichino@unibo.it for an appointment if you cannot come during office hours.

 

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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Universita' di Bologna