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Elena Pastorino is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and simultaneously holds multiple research appointments at Stanford University including Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Faculty Research Fellow in the Economics Department, and Social Science Research Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
Education:
- B.A. in Economics, Bocconi University (Italy), 1998
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Research Focus: Elena specializes in labor economics, development economics, and macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on understanding the determinants of individual wages, job mobility, consumption patterns, and aggregate employment dynamics. Her work examines how human capital, borrowing constraints, and firm market power influence labor market outcomes across both developed and developing economies.
Research Themes: Her recent research explores the distributional impacts of minimum wage policies, the role of big data and artificial intelligence in dynamic pricing strategies, and the mechanisms driving wage growth and persistent income inequality. She has conducted extensive analysis on the effectiveness of social insurance programs and government policies in labor and output markets, with applications ranging from US labor markets to poverty alleviation programs in Latin America.
Grants and Funding: Elena has secured significant research funding from prestigious institutions including the Banque de France, National Science Foundation, and Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute, supporting her groundbreaking work on unemployment fluctuations, big data economics, and AI's impact on market performance.
Collaborations: She maintains active research collaborations with leading economists including Jeremy Lise, Luigi Pistaferri, Erik Hurst, Patrick Kehoe, and Thomas Winberry, organizing major conferences such as the SITE conference at Stanford.
