Giorgio Brunello

Research Fellow

University of Padova

giorgio.brunello@unipd.it

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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. 17947

Intended College Major Choice and the Inheritance of Majors

Giorgio Brunello, Francesco Campo, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Martina Miotto, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 255, 112558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17352

Does Work-Based Learning Facilitate the School to Work Transition? Evidence from an Italian Reform

Martino Bernardi, Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17331

Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes

Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Pamela Giustinelli, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 247, 112096

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17296

The Pecuniary Costs of Early School Leaving and Poor Basic Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

also available as 'The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning', United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16536

Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna

Giorgio Brunello, Eiji Yamamura

forthcoming in: Asian Economic Journal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15985

Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?

Giorgio Brunello, Piero Esposito, Lorenzo Rocco, Sergio Scicchitano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15936

Advanced Digital Technologies and Investment in Employee Training: Complements or Substitutes?

Giorgio Brunello, Désirée Rückert, Christoph T. Weiss, Patricia Wruuck

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15871

Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Absence from Work

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 9 (2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15864

The Long-Run Earnings Effects of Winning a Mayoral Election

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari, Maria De Paola

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15700

Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Filippo Da Re

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15612

Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach

Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2306-2320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14379

With a Little Help from My Mother. The Matrilineal Advantage in European Grand Parenting.

Giorgio Brunello, Eiji Yamamura

published as 'Reciprocity and the matrilineal advantage in European grand-parenting' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 397 - 433

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14081

The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?

Eiji Yamamura, Giorgio Brunello

published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2023, 37 (2), 149 - 163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13739

Happier with Vocational Education?

Giorgio Brunello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13637

Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Where do I stand? Assessing researchers' beliefs about their productivity' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 185, 61-80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13067

Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training

Giorgio Brunello, Áron Gereben, Christoph T. Weiss, Patricia Wruuck

published as 'Do investments in human and physical capital respond differently to financing constraints?' in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 158, 10(2022)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12981

Employer Provided Training in Europe: Determinants and Obstacles

Giorgio Brunello, Patricia Wruuck

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12763

Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity

Giorgio Brunello, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12691

The Pathways to College

Lisha Agarwal, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2021, 15 (4), 554 - 595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12591