Lorenzo Cappellari is Professor of Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo and the Rockwool Foundation in Berlin, and Research Associate at ZEW. His research spans inequality, intergenerational mobility, income and earnings dynamics, the economics of education, and applied microeconometrics. His current projects exploit rich administrative data from Italy and Denmark to study earnings inequality, parental assortative mating, the heritability of labour market outcomes, and the effects of labour market institutions. He has held visiting and research positions at ISER (Essex), SFI (Copenhagen), and LISER (Luxembourg).


He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2003.