Giorgio Brunello

Research Fellow

University of Padova

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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 Publications

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. 6496
More Apples Less Chips? The Effect of School Fruit Schemes on the Consumption of Junk Food
Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Giovanna Labartino
published in: Health Policy, 2014, 118 (1), 114-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6386
Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income
Giorgio Brunello, Guglielmo Weber, Christoph T. Weiss
published in: The Economic Journal, 2017
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]
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