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Lorenzo Rocco

Research Fellow

University of Padova

lorenzo.rocco@unipd.it

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Research Interests

education education and labor market educational choices educational evaluation effect of immigration health and socioeconomic status health and work health economics health inequality health-related behavior human capital immigrant/native health differences immigrant/native wage growth

Lorenzo Rocco is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Padova. He obtaind a Ph.D in economics at the Toulouse School of Economics (France) in 2005.
He is an applied economist and his fields of research include the socio-economic determinants of health, the influence of health on labor market outcomes and several aspects of the economics of education.
His researches have been published in The Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Health Economics and Social Science and Medicine among others. He contributed to several reports commissioned by the World bank, the World Health Organization, the OECD and The European Commission.

Lorenzo Rocco joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2019.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 10022

Is Childcare Bad for the Mental Health of Grandparents? Evidence from SHARE

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Grandparents in the blues. The effect of childcare on grandparents' depression' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2017,190, 67-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9386

Procedures vs. Incentives: The Case of the University Promotion System in Italy

Carlo dal Maso, Enrico Rettore, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (3), 213 - 232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9275

The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (1), 106-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7976

A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 189-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7311

Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Selection and the Age-Productivity Profile: Evidence from Chess Players' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2015, 110, 45–58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6629

When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 104, 65-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6114

The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

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. 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

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