Francesco Agostinelli

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Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Discipline Economics
Research Areas Education, Family, Income, Policy and Political Economy, Social Interactions
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My research examines the mechanisms driving inequality in economic opportunities, the impact of socioeconomic environments, and the role of barriers.

Francesco Agostinelli is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a research associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2018.

Agostinelli’s research interests lie in the areas of applied microeconomics, labor economics, applied econometrics, child development, public economics and education. He focuses on child development, by developing new methods and analyzing the determinants of children’s skill formation.