Covid Crisis Lab Laboratory for Coronavirus Crisis Research
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Our mission is to understand the spread of the COVID19 and analyze its numerous implications on the health of populations, health care, society, the economy at large and its financial and legal consequences.

    News & Events

    Understanding Intergenerational Contacts
    A project by Nicoletta Balbo, Francesco Billari and Alessia Melegaro helps understand how to limit the opportunities for contagion and protect weak subjects
    Fertility is likely to decline in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic
    A new study from Bocconi University leverages historical social, economic and demographic evidence from natural events and pandemics, as well as the latest techniques in demographic science, to draw the conclusion that postCovid fertility will plausibly decline because of economic uncertainty and increased childcare burdens
    Working from Home Is for the Most Skilled
    A study by Thomas Le Barbanchon found that information, financial activities, and professional and business services, along with agriculture, are the industries with the most hours worked at home
    Family Firms Confirmed to Be More Resilient
    During the pandemic, family business shares had a performance eight percentage points higher, according to a study by Amore, Quarato and Pelucco

    People

    • Alessia Melegaro
      Director
      Alessia Melegaro is an Associate Professor in Demography and Social Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on the use of mathematical modeling and statistical analysis techniques to evaluate public health intervention programs. In particular, she has been working extensively ...
    • Arnstein Aassve
      Full Professor
      Arnstein Aassve is Professor in Demography at Bocconi University. Research interests include institutional and cultural Demography, big data in historical perspective, NLP and sentiment analysis. ...
    • Jérôme Adda
      Full Professor
      Jérôme Adda is a Full Professor in the department of Economics. His research interests focus on health, health behavior and labor. His main contributions have been on the effect of public policies on health behavior, the links between income and health, the role of human capital on career choices ov ...
    • Guido Alfani
      Full Professor
      Guido Alfani is full professor at Bocconi University, Milan. His fields of interest include economic history and demography, with a focus on long-term dynamics. ...
    • Massimo Anelli
      Assistant Professor
      Massimo Anelli is an Assistant professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. His research agenda focuses on Human Capital in several domains such as labor markets, migration, gender, fertility and voting. The common ground of his work is the use of original administrative data, deri ...
    • Nicoletta Balbo
      Assistant Professor
      Nicoletta Balbo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. ...
    • Francesco Billari
      Full Professor
      Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi University, Milan, he worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute fo ...
    • Tito Boeri
      Full Professor
      Tito Boeri is full professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan (where he had been also Dean for Research until fall 2014). He was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, where he is currently Senior Visiting Professor. From March 2015 to February 2019, he was President of the ...
    • Marco Bonetti
      Full Professor
      Marco Bonetti has a MSc and PhD degrees in Statistics at the University of Connecticut following his undergraduate studies in Statistics and Economics (University of Rome). He spent 8 years as postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of Biostatistics at Harvard, with joint position at Dana-Farber ...
    • Emanuele Borgonovo
      Full Professor
      Emanuele Borgonovo is Full Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University, and director of the new Bachelor in Economics, Management and Computer Science of Bocconi University. He is the current President Elect of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS, co-editor-in-chief o ...
    • Leonardo Borlini
      Assistant Professor
      Leonardo S. Borlini is Assistant Professor of International law in the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University in 2009 and his LL.M from the University of Cambridge in 2007. He served the Legal Department of t ...
    • Valentina Bosetti
      Full Professor
      Valentina Bosetti is a Full Professor at Bocconi University, teaching environmental and climate change economics. She is a senior scientist at the RFF- CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). Valentina also collaborated for Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) from 2003 to 20 ...
    • Paola Caiozzo
      Senior Lecturer
      Paola Caiozzo is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Management and Technology. ...
    • ALESSANDRA CASARICO
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor of Public Economics. Dondena, CESifo and D'Agliano Research Fellow. MSc in Economic and Social Sciences, Bocconi University. D.Phil. in Economics, Oxford University, Nuffield College. ...
    • Andrea Colli
      Full Professor
      He is a Full Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management. His field of specialization is Business History.He is interested in different topics, among which family capitalism, international business and corporate governance in a hist ...
    • Catherine E. De Vries
      Full Professor
      Catherine is a Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. Her work can be broadly situated in the areas political behaviour, political economy and EU politics, and has appeared in leading political science journals, such as the American Political Science Review and Annual Review of Politi ...
    • Daniele Durante
      Assistant Professor
      Daniele Durante is an Assistant Professor in the department of Decision Science. ...
    • Carlo Favero
      Full Professor
      Carlo Favero is Deutsche Bank Chair in Quantitative Finance and Asset Pricing at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. His research interests include econometric modelling of bond and stock prices, applied econometrics, monetary and fiscal policy and time-series models for ...
    • Vincenzo Galasso
      Full Professor
      Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of economics at Bocconi University focusing on political economics, political economy. ...
    • Simone Ghislandi
      Associate Professor
      Simone Ghislandi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University. He holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University, an MPhil and a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He is affiliate at CERGAS and also at the Carlo F. Dondena Centr ...
    • Pamela Giustinelli
      Assistant Professor
      Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University. Her research focusses on modeling, measurement, empirical analysis, and policy implications of how individuals and groups make consequential economic decisions in the presence of partial information an ...
    • Basile Grassi
      Assistant Professor
      Basile Grassi is an Assistant Professor in the department of Economics. ...
    • Paolo Guenzi
      Associate Professor
      Paolo Guenzi is an Associate Professor in the department of Marketing ...
    • Dirk Hovy
      Associate Professor
      Dirk Hovy is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the department of marketing at Bocconi University. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, working as research assistant at the Information Sciences Institute. He works in Natural Language Processing (NLP ...
    • Alexander Kentikelenis
      Assistant Professor
      Alexander Kentikelenis is a social scientist interested in political economy, international affairs, and global health and development. He is assistant professor of political economy and sociology at Bocconi University. His research focuses on the links between global processes, national respo ...
    • Eliana La Ferrara
      Full Professor
      Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. Her research is in development economics, with a particular focus on ethnicity, social norms, institutions and the m ...
    • THOMAS E. R. LE BARBANCHON
      Associate Professor
      Thomas Le Barbanchon is an associate professor in the department of economics at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on labor markets. His main contributions have been on the effects of hiring credits, of unemployment insurance, on the analysis of discrimination and of gender inequality ...
    • Greta Nasi
      Associate Professor
      Greta Nasi is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. She is also Director of the Master of Science in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance, jointly offered by Bocconi University and Politecnico di Milano. Since 2017 she serves as Director of Rese ...
    • Marco Percoco
      Associate Professor
      Marco Percoco is the Director of GREEN (Centre for research in Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks) at Bocconi University and an Associate Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the same university. His main research interests are in t ...
    • Raffaella Piccarreta
      Associate Professor
      Raffaella Piccarreta is an Associate Professor in the department of Decision Science. ...
    • Paolo Pinotti
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor in Economics at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Coordinator of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at the Baffi-Carefin Center, Senior Researcher at FBK-IRVAPP, and researcher at Dondena. Before joining Boc ...
    • ORESTE POLLICINO
      Full Professor
      Oreste Pollicino is full professor of constitutional law at Bocconi University and Director of the Bocconi LL.M. program in Law of Internet Technologies. His research fields include balancing between public health and privacy in the emergency season and protection of fundamental rights in digital c ...
    • Paola Profeta
      Associate Professor
      Paola Profeta is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University, coordinator of the Dondena Gender Initiative at the Dondena Research Center for Social Dynamics and Public Policy, research affiliate of CESifo and CHILD and scientific advisor of Unicredit and Universities Foundation. S ...
    • Carlo Salvato
      Full Professor
      Carlo Salvato is a Full Professor in the department of Management and Technology. ...
    • Julien Sauvagnat
      Associate Professor
      Julien Sauvagnat is an Associate Professor in the department of Economics. ...
    • Eleanor Spaventa
      Full Professor
      Eleanor holds a laurea in law from the Universita' La Sapienza in Rome, an LL.M in European Law from the University of Cambridge, and a D.Phil in European Law from the University of Oxford. ...
    • David Stuckler
      Full Professor
      David Stuckler is a Full Professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. ...
    • Aleksandra Torbica
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the Director of Centre for Research for Health and Social Care Management at Bocconi University. She holds the MSc degree in Health Economics, Management and Policy from Bocconi University and PhD in Economics and Management ...
    • Alex Turrini
      Associate Professor
      Associate Professor at the Department of Institutional Anlysis and Public Management. Researcher at ASK Centre for Research on Arts, Science and Knowledge. Core Faculty at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Public Management and Policy Group. Director of Master of Science Program in Economics and ...
    • Arianna Vedaschi
      Full Professor
      Arianna Vedaschi is Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at Bocconi University. Her fields of research include state of emergency, human rights and counter-terrorism. She is a member of the Scientific Board of “Comparative Covid Law”. She is the coordinator of the research group on Constitutiona ...
    • Riccardo Zecchina
      Full Professor
      Currently Full Professor at Bocconi University and holder of the Vodafone Chair in Machine Learning and Data Science. His research interests lie at the interface between statistical physics, computer science, machine learning and information theory. I’m interested in fundamental aspects as well as i ...