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Ester Fanelli is a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology at Brown University and predoctoral trainee at the Population Studies and Training Center. She earned a Msc in Economics of Governments and International Organizations at Bocconi University, and a Msc in Sociology at Brown University. Her research focuses on gender and family demography. She uses mixed methods, from demographic techniques to computational text analysis, to uncover the gender dynamics that shape our families and societies. In her dissertation, she uses computational text analysis and qualitative interviews to study the cultural narratives around gender-based violence in Italy.

I am an economist at the research department of the Bank of Italy, Economics and Law Division, Head of Regulation and Competition Sector.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. My main research areas are public economics, corporate governance and gender economics.

Luna Bellani is a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ulm, Germany. She is an applied microeconomist, her research agenda focuses on inequality and intergenerational mobility, political economy of redistribution and gender economics.

Stefania Albanesi is Professor of Economics at the Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, a Research Associate at the NBER  and a CEPR Research Fellow. Prior to her appointment to the University of Miami, she was a professor at Bocconi University, Duke University, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh and a Research Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  

She is a macroeconomist whose research interests include the determinants and implications of various dimensions of inequality and the distributional implications of government policies. She has studied the political economy of inflation, the optimal taxation of capital and labor income, and the evolution of gender disparities in labor market outcomes. Her recent work has studied the distribution of debt and defaults in the lead up and during the 2007-09 financial crisis and the determinants and consequences of personal bankruptcy. Her current research focusses on the relation between changing trends in female participation and aggregate business cycles and on the relation between credit scores and equitable access to consumer credit markets. 

Graziella Bertocchi is Professor of Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and President of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and held positions at Brown University, Royal Holloway-University of London, Université Catholique de Louvain, European University Institute, and IGIER-Bocconi. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and IZA. Her research interests include macroeconomics, political economy, comparative development, and the economics of growth, culture, and institutions.