Research AssociateUniversita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Lucia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Cattolica University in Milan and Executive Director of the Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University. She received a PhD in Economics from Bocconi in 2009 and she was graduate visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley and at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) in Stockholm. Before joining Cattolica, she held academic positions at University College London and Queen Mary University. She was affiliated with J-PAL, a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a full member of the EUDN (European Development Research Network). In 2019 she received an ERC Starting Grant to study the reasons behind the persistence of harmful traditions (i.e. female genital cutting). She constantly collaborate with International Organizations and governments in developing countries and in Italy to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of anti-poverty policies.
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.
