Luigi Pistaferri | |
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| Born | 1968 Naples, Italy |
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| Academic career | |
| Field | Financial economics |
| Institution | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University College London (PhD) Istituto Universitario Navale (Bachelor's degree) Bocconi University (Master's degree) |
Luigi Pistaferri (born 1968) is an Italian-American economist [1] and the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Economics at Stanford University. [2] He is known for his research in labor and macroeconomics, focusing on family consumption, labor supply, welfare reform, and inequality. [3] [4] He is also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center on Longevity. [5] He is the co-Director or GRID (Global Repository of Income Dynamics). [6] During the period 2012-17 he served as a co-editor of the American Economic Review ; [7] he is currently one of the co-editors of the Journal of Political Economy . [8] He is the author (with frequent collaborator Tullio Jappelli) of the book The Economics of Consumption: Theory and Evidence. [9]
Pistaferri was born in Naples, Italy, in 1968. [10] He earned his undergraduate degree in International Trade and Foreign Exchange Markets from the Istituto Universitario Navale (IUN, now Parthenope University) in 1993. [11] He then completed a Master's in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan in 1995. [12] Pistaferri went on to earn his Ph.D. in Economics from University College London in 1999 and later obtained a Doctorate in Economic Sciences from IUN in 2001.
Pistaferri joined Stanford University in 1999 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. [13] He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and to full Professor in 2011. [11] Since 2013, he has held the position of Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). [5] Pistaferri has also held several visiting academic positions, including a Bajola Parisani Visiting Chair in Economics and Institutions at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Rome during 2011-2012, [14] a "Franco Modigliani" Visiting Professorship at the University of Naples "Federico II" in 2018-19, and a University of Chicago Griffin Economics Incubator Distinguished Visitor position in 2024-25. [5]
Before joining Stanford, Pistaferri worked as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London from 1998 to 1999. [4]
Pistaferri is one of the co-authors of a paper that found a significant relationship between income inequality and consumption inequality over the past two decades. [15] His work often incorporates large-scale datasets and quantitative methods to analyze families' and individuals' behavior in response to economic policy changes. [16]
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