​Marco has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance at Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) since June 2024. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the same Department. He received his PhD in Economics from Queen Mary University of London in 2021.

Marco’s research is in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on the economics of education and labour economics. His research examines how family circumstances and educational institutions shape children’s human capital and young adults’ labour-market outcomes. His work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of the European Economic Association.