Luna is an applied microeconomist. She is a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ulm, Germany. She is also a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz, Germany and a research affiliate at the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality of Dondena Research Center, Bocconi University.
Her research focuses on public & labor economics with particular interest in inequality and intergenerational mobility, political economy of redistribution and gender economics.
Luna joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2017.
IZA-Publikationen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18066
Luna Bellani, Nona Bledow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18043
Sharon Baute, Luna Bellani, Katharina Hecht
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17099
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16539
revised version published as 'Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 104, 102605
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16006
Luna Bellani, Kumar Biswas, Sebastian Fehrler, Paul Marx, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Syed Rashed Al-Zayed Josh
revised version published in Journal of Development Studies, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14969
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 68 (2-3), 509-533.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14718
published as 'The Political Fallout of Air Pollution' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(18), e2314428121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13924
revised version published as 'Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 77, 102283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13611
Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, Stephan Ernst Maurer
revised version published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 250 - 283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11324
revised version published as 'Social mobility and education policy: a district-level analysis of legislative behavior' in Socio-Economic Review, 2024, 22 (2), 533 - 571
