Sara Lazzaroni

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Economics

Academic discipline: SECS-P/02 Economic Policy

Short Bio

Sara Lazzaroni is an applied economist, with research interests in quantitative Economic History, Political Economy, and Development Economics. She holds a PhD in Economic Policy from the Catholic University of Milan. She has been a Post-Doc and Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. Her research covers a diverse set of topics, including the role of shocks, culture, and institutions for historical and present-day socio-economic outcomes. Her works studied attitudes towards the state and political preferences in Italy, discriminatory attitudes in US and India, and economic growth in Europe over the 1000-1800 time period. Go to the Curriculum vitae