Paolo Naticchioni is Full Professor at the University of Roma Tre (Department of Political Science). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (2008), where he also received a M.Sc. in Economics. He also received a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza (2004). He is an IZA fellow, since 2012. Further, he has been secretary of the Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL, 2016-2019) as well as member of the steering committee (2010-2016). On leave from 2018 to 2023 to serve as manager in the research departiment (Direzione Centrale Studi e Ricerche) of INPS (Italian Social Security Administration) dealing also with the research program VisitInps scholar.
His research interests include labour economics (in particular topics such as inequality, unions and wage bargaining, wage dynamics, trade and the labour market), urban economics, political economy (political selection and commitment), economics of education, economics of happiness, program evaluation.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2012.