Pietro Biroli

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University of Zurich

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Pietro is an assistant professor at the department of economics at the University of Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Chicago. Previously, he worked at the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti and obtained a master from Université Catholique de Louvain and Bocconi University.

He is interested in the process of health and human capital development in children and adolescents. In particular his current research explores the interaction between genetics, family investments, and early childhood interventions in explaining the long-term inequality across gender and socioeconomic status. More broadly, he is interested in Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2015.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14176
Moral Hazard Heterogeneity: Genes and Health Insurance Influence Smoking after a Health Shock
Pietro Biroli, Laura Zwyssig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13753
Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People
Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13398
Family Life in Lockdown
Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13206
Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction
Perline A. Demange, Margherita Malanchini, Travis T. Mallard, Pietro Biroli
published in: Nature Genetics. 53, 35–44(2021)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, ISSN 0304-4076. (2020).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11187
Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Joanna Maselko
published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (3), 824-859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10742
Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
Pietro Biroli, Daniela Del Boca, James J. Heckman, Lynne Pettler Heckman, Yu Kyung Koh, Sylvi Kuperman, Sidharth Moktan, Chiara D. Pronzato, Anna Ziff
published in Research in Economics 2018, 72 (1):1-32
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