Giorgio Brunello

Research Fellow

University of Padova

giorgio.brunello@unipd.it

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Giorgio Brunello is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Padova. He studied Economics at the University of Venice and the LSE where he received his masters degree in 1981. He obtained his PhD from Osaka University, Japan, in 1987. He taught at Osaka University (1987-89), the University of Venice (1990-96) and the University of Udine (1996-98). He is affiliated with CESifo and ROA. His current research interests are the economics education and training and applied health economics.

Among others, Giorgio Brunello has published in the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Economic Policy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics and Journal of Public Economics. He has also published books with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 1999.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5944

The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5743

Non Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits: Labour Market Relevance and their Development in Education & Training Systems

Giorgio Brunello, Martin Schlotter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5479

The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 234-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5409

Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Giorgio Brunello, Elena Crivellaro, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Lost in Transition? The returns to education acquired under communism in the first decade of the new millennium' in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (4), 637-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4861

Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi, Daniela Sonedda

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 361-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4667

Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Fabbri, Margherita Fort

published as 'The Causal effect of education on body mass: evidence from Europe' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31(1), 195-223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4326

The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: A Review of the Evidence

Giorgio Brunello

published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 145-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3529

The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective

Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

published in: Economic Policy, 2009, 24 (59), 551-596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3327

The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3277

Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 621-634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3102

“For One More Year with You”: Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Guglielmo Weber

published as 'Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe' in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 516 - 539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2746

Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello

revised version published as 'Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training: A theoretical model with evidence from Europe' in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1152-1176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2643

Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2534

On the Efficiency Costs of De-tracking Secondary Schools

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2348

Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi

published in: Economic Policy, 52, 2007, 781-861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2203

Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi, Daniela Sonedda

published as 'Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (3), 297 - 322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1854

Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco

substantial revision published as 'On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools in Europe" in: Education Economics, [iFirst]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1704

Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP

Beatrice d'Hombres, Giorgio Brunello

published as 'Does body weight affect wages? Evidence from Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2007, 5 (1), 1-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1640

Workplace Training in Europe

Andrea Bassanini, Alison L. Booth, Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Edwin Leuven

published in: Brunello, Garibaldi and Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007, Ch. 8 - 13