Covid Crisis Lab Laboratory for Coronavirus Crisis Research

Health

COVID-19 lockdown only partially alleviates health impacts of air pollution in Northern Italy

by Valentina Bosetti and Francesco Granella in collaboration with RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment

The interplay of professional and organizational resilience during times of disruption

by Giulia Cappellaro and Amelia Compagni

The impact of the 1630 plague on economic inequality in northern Italy

by Guido Alfani and Mattia Fochesato in collaboration with University of Pavia

Is Time to Intervention in the COVID-19 Outbreak Really Important?

by Emanuele Borgonovo and Xuefei Lu

A Survey to Study How the Population Is Dealing with the Coronavirus Threat

by Nirosha Varghese and Aleksandra Torbica, in collaboration with Hamburg Center for Health Economics

Uncertainty Quantification and Global Sensitivity Analysis in Pandemic Modelling

by Emanuele Borgonovo, Xuefei Lu and Alessia Melegaro

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The Other Side of the Equation: Measuring the COVID-19 Health Care Costs in Lombardy and evaluating future vaccination strategies

by Alessia Melegaro, Aleksandra Torbica, Yuxi Wang, Raffaella Piccarreta, Oriana Ciani and Simone Ghislandi, in collaboration with Humanitas, Regione Lombardia, and Stefano Merler (Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento)

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Did Covid-19 Hit Harder in Peripheral Areas? The Case of Italian

By Tito Boeri, Francesco Armillei, Francesco Filippucci and Thomas Fletcher, in collaboration with Paris School of Economics and University of Edinburgh

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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 ...
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 ...
Diana Righi

Research Services officer

Diana holds a Double Master Degree in "European and International Politics" from Università Cattolica in Milan and Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle (Germany). Before arriving to Bocconi University, she worked as European project officer at University of Lorraine (France). ...
Luca Barbato

Luca Barbato is a final year BSc student in Economics and Finance (BIEF) and incoming MSc student in Economic and Social Sciences (ESS) at Bocconi University. His main interests lie in Macroeconomics and Labour economics. He has worked for the MixMi research project, aimed at estimating epidemiologi ...
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. ...
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. ...
Francesco Granella

Francesco Granella is a PhD candidate in Public Policy & Administration at Bocconi University and a researcher at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economy and the Environment. His work focuses on the costs of environmental stressors such as temperature and air pollution. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
Adriana Manna

Adriana Manna is a PhD student in Network Science at the Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University. Her research interests are related to the mechanisms governing the evolution over time and across settings of socio-demographic processes and human behaviours. She is also in ...
Paula Rettl

Paula Rettl is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Social and Political Sciences. Her research interest lies at the intersection of international political economy and political behavior. Her current projects focus on how exogenous shocks (e.g., trade shocks, epidemics, and environmental disasters) ...
Nicoletta Balbo

Assistant Professor

Nicoletta Balbo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. ...
Nicoletta Balbo

Assistant Professor

Nicoletta Balbo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. ...
Antoine Sienczewski

Antoine Sienczewski is a third year BIEF-Econ student with a strong passion for mathematics, programming and data analysis. He has worked for the MixMi research project, aimed at estimating epidemiological patterns in the city of Milan, under the supervision of Prof. Alessia Melegaro. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yuxi Wang

Yuxi Wang is a PhD Candidate and a Post-Doctoral researcher in the field of Health Economics and Social Dynamics. She is experienced in using administrative and digital data to understand health and social disparities from various angles. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

Associate Professor

Leonardo S. Borlini is Associate 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 ...
Leonardo Borlini

Associate Professor

Leonardo S. Borlini is Associate 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 ...
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 ...
ARIELA CAGLIO

Associate Professor

Degree in Business Administration and Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management, Università Bocconi, Milan. Associate Professor of Management Accounting. Program Director of BIEM (International Economics and Management). Senior Professor of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. SDA Bocconi Lia ...
ARIELA CAGLIO

Associate Professor

Degree in Business Administration and Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management, Università Bocconi, Milan. Associate Professor of Management Accounting. Program Director of BIEM (International Economics and Management). Senior Professor of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. SDA Bocconi Lia ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Letizia Mencarini

Full Professor

Letizia Mencarini is Full Professor of Demography at Bocconi University (at the Department of Management and Technology). Her research interests focus on family demography (life-course analysis, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption, fertility) and its links with economic and su ...
Letizia Mencarini

Full Professor

Letizia Mencarini is Full Professor of Demography at Bocconi University (at the Department of Management and Technology). Her research interests focus on family demography (life-course analysis, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption, fertility) and its links with economic and su ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Raffaella Piccarreta

Associate Professor

Raffaella Piccarreta is an Associate Professor in the department of Decision Science. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alessandro Romano

Assistant Professor

Alessandro Romano is assistant professor at Bocconi Law School. He has published in leading journals in the areas of Law, Business, Environmental Science, Political Science, Economics and Multidisciplinary ...
Soheil Shayegh

Soheil Shayegh is a Scientist at RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economy and the Environment in Milan and the co-founder of Climate and Health Initiative Alliance (CHIA). He is currently co-directing an international effort to develop a unified decision support framework for COVID-19 vaccination roll ...
David Stuckler

Full Professor

David Stuckler is a Full Professor in the department of Social and Political Sciences. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Filippo Trentini

Filippo Trentini is a researcher in the DPCS lab at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. His work focuses on developing quantitative epidemiological models to investigate the spread of infectious diseases in different socio-economic contexts. This allows both to characterize different types of infections and t ...
Alex Turrini

Associate Professor

Alex Turrini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Università Bocconi. His research activities focus on two main areas. The first is public policies and management in the arts and cultural sector; the second is public network leadership and change in gover ...
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 ...
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 ...