Cheti Nicoletti (BSc Padova, MA Louvain-la-Neuve, PhD Florence) is Professor of Economics and Deputy Head of the Department of Economics for Research at the University of York. Previously she worked for ten years at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, where she continues to be a Research Associate. She is also an IZA (Institute for Study of Labor) Research Fellow and a research associate of CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino).

Her research interests include gender stereotypes, peers’ effects, school and parental investments, children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development and mental health.

The output from her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Her research has been partly supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation.