Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

Stefania Albanesi

Columbia University
Associate Professor of Economics

Stefania Albanesi is a macroeconomist with interests in public finance and labor economics. Her work on government policy has studied the link between inflation and inequality, the design of monetary institutions and capital income taxation in economies with incentive problems. Her contributions in labor economics have examined the link between medical progress and female labor force participation and fertility in the US and internationally, and the role of statistical discrimination in gender earnings differentials. She is currently studying the determinants of gender gaps in unemployment and the taxation of households. Albanesi has a Bachelor's degree in economics from Bocconi University in Milan and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University. She is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University, research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

Working Group

Family Inequality (FI)

Additional Information

Email: stefania.albanesi@columbia.edu
Homepage: www.columbia.edu/~sa2310