معرفی
Elisabetta De Cao is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bologna's Department of Economics. She holds affiliations as a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), Research Fellow at IZA, and Research Affiliate at Bocconi University's Dondena Centre. Her research focuses on health economics, family economics, and development economics, with emphasis on children's health, early life origins of health disparities, violence against children, and gene-environment interactions. She leads a PRIN PNRR grant (2022) and an ERC Consolidator Grant (2025-2030) examining harsh parenting and health lifecycle dynamics.
- Education: PhD in Econometrics from Tor Vergata University, postdoc positions at University of Groningen and University of Oxford.
- Grants: €284k PRIN PNRR grant (2023-2025), €1.99M ERC Consolidator Grant (2025-2030).
- Research: Investigates child maltreatment, maternal health, and vaccination programs using micro-data from developed and developing countries.
Key Projects: Studies unemployment's impact on child abuse in the U.S., economic recession effects on infant health in England, and education's role in reducing female genital cutting in Nigeria. Utilizes causal inference methods and dynamic transmission modeling.
