Jérôme Frans Adda
Full Professor
Biography
Jérôme Frans Adda is a Professor of Economics at Università Bocconi since 2014. Prior to that he was a professor at the European University Institute (Florence), as well as a Professor at University College London. He was a visiting Associate Professor at the Economics department at Berkeley in 2006-07.
His research interests include Health Economics, Labor Economics and Macroeconomics. His main contributions have been on the effect of public policies on health behavior, the analysis of the spread of diseases, the links between income and health, the role of human capital on career choices and wage growth over the life cycle. Many of his papers have been published in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, l'American Economic Review, il Quarterly Journal of Economics, la Review of Economic Studies, la Proceedings of the National Academy of Science as well as journals in other disciplines. He was a managing editor for the Review of Economic Studies between 2013 and 2017 and he served again in 2021.
He got his Ph.D in Economics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) after studying biology at AgroParisTech and Economics and Statistics at ENSAE in Paris.
Recent Publications
- 2025
There’s More to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations
ADDA, J. F., P. PINOTTI, G. TURA, "There’s More to Marriage than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations", Journal of Political Economy, 2025, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 1276–1333 - 2025
More than “I do”: Legal status and cultural distance shape marriages and separations
ADDA, J. F., P. PINOTTI, G. TURA, "More than “I do”: Legal status and cultural distance shape marriages and separations", VoxEU - CEPR, 12 July 2025 - 2025
La burocrazia e il gioco delle coppie
ADDA, J. F., P. PINOTTI, G. TURA, "La burocrazia e il gioco delle coppie", Il Corriere della Sera, 27 September 2025 - 2024
Grantmaking, Grading on a Curve, and the Paradox of Relative Evaluation in Nonmarkets
ADDA, J. F., M. OTTAVIANI, "Grantmaking, Grading on a Curve, and the Paradox of Relative Evaluation in Nonmarkets", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, vol. 139, no. 2, pp. 1255–1319 - 2023
The sources of wage growth
ADDA, J. F., C. DUSTMANN, "The sources of wage growth", voxEU.org, 8 March 2023 - 2023
Sources of Wage Growth
ADDA, J. F., C. DUSTMANN, "Sources of Wage Growth", Journal of Political Economy, 2023, vol. 131, no. 2, pp. 456-503 - 2022
The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
ADDA, J. F., C. DUSTMANN, J.-S. GÖRLACH, "The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation", Review of Economic Studies, 2022, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 2841–2871, - 2021
The health toll of import competition
FAWAZ, Y., J. F. ADDA, "The health toll of import competition", voxEU.org, 9 March 2021 - 2020
The Health Toll of Import Competition
ADDA, J. F., Y. FAWAZ, "The Health Toll of Import Competition", The Economic Journal, 2020, vol. 130, no. 630, pp. 1501-1540 - 2020
Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
ADDA, J. F., "Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance", American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2020, vol. 110, pp. 255-259
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Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2022
