I am an applied economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of public economics and gender economics. I am interested in the study of inequality, particularly from a gender perspective, its causes and the role of policy in addressing them.
My research relies on a mix of applied theory and empirical methods to explore policy-relevant issues. I use administrative data to document the extent and drivers of gender inequality along the distribution, with a particular focus on the top and the role of firms. I study the under-representation of women in elite occupations, focusing on politics and academia. To study the sources of inequality in the economics profession, I use text as data and natural language processing tools to uncover sources of bias.
I am Associate Professor of Public Economics at and member of the Research Center on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, where I coordinate the newly created Social Inclusion Lab ().
Since September 2022 I am the Academic Director of the World Bachelor in Business, a triple degree programme developed by Bocconi, USC University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and HKUST the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and an elected member of the ECINEQ Council. I am a Research Fellow at Munich and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ifo Institute, Munich.
Selected publications
What Firms do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data (forthcoming)
Casarico A. and Lattanzio S., Journal of Labor Economics,
Heterogeneity in parental time with children: Trends by gender and education between 1961 and 2012 across twenty countries (forthcoming)
Balbo N., Casarico A., Sommacal A., and Altintas E., European Sociological Review,
Behind the Child Penalty: Understanding What Contributes to the Labour Market Costs of Motherhood (2023)
Casarico A., e Lattanzio S., Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 36, 1489–1511
Child Care Costs, Household Liquidity Constraints and Gender Inequality (2023)
Casarico A., Del Rey E. e Jose I. Silva, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 36, 1461–1487
The Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 on Labor Market Flows: Evidence from Administrative Data (2022)
Casarico A. and Lattanzio S., Journal of Economic Inequality,
Let the voters choose women (2019)
Baltrunaite A., Casarico A., Profeta P., and Savio G., Journal of Public Economics, 180, December
Top Incomes and the gender divide (2018)
Atkinson A B, Casarico A., and Voitchovsky S., Journal of Economic Inequality, 16(2), 225-256