Stefano Lombardi

Stefano Lombardi received his PhD in Economics in 2019 from Uppsala University while being affiliated with IFAU (Institute for Evaluation of Labor Market and Education Policy). Previously, he obtained his BSc and MSc in Economics from Bocconi University, and a BSc in Psychology from San Raffaele University.

Stefano's research interests are in applied microeconometrics, worker-firm matching, and dynamic treatment evaluation. In the past, Stefano studied the effect of wage subsidies on firm hiring behavior and performance. In his ongoing projects, he is studying the threat effect of unemployment benefit sanctions on re-employment rates, as well as methodological aspects of key duration analysis models used in policy evaluation.

At VATT, Stefano will continue doing empirical research in the broad labor economics area, with an emphasis on analyzing the effectiveness of policy reforms.

Stefano has been a research affiliate at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) since 2019. He is also affiliated with UCLS (Uppsala Center for Labor Studies) and external researcher at IFAU.