Cheti Nicoletti

Cheti Nicoletti is a Full Professor of Economics and Deputy Head of the Department of Economics for Research at the University of York. She co-leads the Applied Micro-Econometrics Research Cluster and holds affiliations with ISER (University of Essex), IZA, and CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino). Her work focuses on child development, education, gender economics, and social networks, with a particular emphasis on parental investments, mental health outcomes, and policy impacts. She has published extensively in journals like the Journal of Labor Economics and Journal of Applied Econometrics, and her research has been supported by the ESRC and Nuffield Foundation.

Education:

• BSc in Economics, University of Padova
• MA in Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain
• PhD in Economics, University of Florence

Research Interests:

• Child development, including cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes
• Gender roles, stereotypes, and labor supply decisions
• Peer effects, school inputs, and educational inequality
• Intergenerational mobility and health economics

Awards and Affiliations:

• IZA Research Fellow
• Member of the Royal Economic Society Council

Grants and Supervision:

• Principal investigator for ESRC-funded projects on child mental health and sibling spillover effects
• Supervised PhD students now in academia, policy institutions, and central banks

Teaching and Leadership:

• Postgraduate courses in applied microeconometrics
• Departmental roles include Research Committee Chair and Performance Reviewer