Research AssociateUniversita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Lucia is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Cattolica University in Milan and Executive Director of the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on understanding constraints for economic development in Africa (e.g. harmful social norms, stereotypes, HIV) combing traditional empirical/theoretical analysis and randomized field experiments.
Education
PhD Economics, Bocconi University, 2009
MSc (Cum laude) Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia, 2005
BA (Distinction) Business Administration, Bocconi University, 2003
Undergraduate Degree Economics and Business, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2001
In this paper, we exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether inter-racial interaction affects stereotypes, attitudes and performance.
High‐risk sexual behaviours are generally unobserved and difficult to identify. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of two risky‐behaviour measures: biomarkers for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and self‐reported data. We build an epidemiological model to assess the relative performance of biomarkers versus self‐reported data.
