Paolo Pinotti

Paolo Pinotti is a Dean of the Faculty at Università Bocconi, Professor of Economics at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, and Endowed Chair in the Economic Analysis of Crime. He directs the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime at the Baffi-Carefin Research Center, and he is the Coordinator of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He worked at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy between 2007 and 2011. 

He is an applied economist with a strong interest in social phenomena that are relevant from both a scientific and a policy perspective, such as immigration, discrimination, crime, and mass media. He studies these phenomena through the lens of economic principles and employing state-of-the-art econometric methods. His research has been published in leading scientific journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Review of Economic Studies. In 2016, he was awarded the “AEJ:Applied Economics” Best Paper Award by the American Economic Association. 

He got his Ph.D. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2009, a Master in Economics from University of Chicago and a Bachelor in Economics from Università Bocconi.