Nicola Persico

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Nicola Giuseppe Persico
Born1967 (age 5455)
Education Bocconi University, Northwestern University
Awards2007 Carlo Alberto Medal, 2014 Reiter Prize from Kellogg
Scientific career
Fields Economics
Institutions Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Thesis Acquiring information: three essays on the economics of information  (1996)
Website nicolapersico.com

Nicola Giuseppe Persico (born 1967) is an Italian-American economist. He is the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he directs the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management. [1]

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Education and career

Persico received his laurea from Bocconi University in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1996, both in economics. He then served as an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles for one year before leaving for the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006, he left his position as an associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania to become a full professor of economics at New York University. In 2011, he joined the Kellogg School of Management, where he was named the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor in 2014; he will retain this title until 2019. [2]

Research interests

Persico's research covers multiple disciplines within economics, including political economy and labor economics. [1] This includes multiple studies he has co-authored which found a positive relationship between someone's height as a teenager and their income later in life. [3] [4] [5] He and his colleagues have also shown that it is better to do one task at a time (sequentially) than to do multiple tasks simultaneously. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Nicola Persico". Faculty directory. Kellogg School of Management.
  2. Persico, Nicola. "Nicola Persico CV" (PDF).
  3. Donohue, Meg (2 February 2007). "Why tall people make more money". CNN.
  4. "Walk tall". The Economist. 25 April 2002.
  5. Hall, Stephen S. (28 November 2006). "Success is Relative, and Height Isn't Everything". The New York Times.
  6. O'Connell, Andrew (20 January 2015). "The Pros and Cons of Doing One Thing at a Time". Harvard Business Review.