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Massimo Anelli is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University's Department of Social and Political Sciences. He serves as Director of the Bachelor Program in "International Politics and Government" and Director of the Bocconi-HEC Double-Degree Bachelor Program in "Data, Society and Organizations." Anelli maintains affiliations with multiple research centers including the Dondena Centre, Igier, Baffi Carefin, CESifo (Research Fellow), IZA (Research Fellow), and fRDB (Research Fellow).
Dr. Anelli earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at University of California, Davis. His academic journey has focused on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of economics, demography, and political science.
Professor Anelli's research follows an interdisciplinary, policy-focused agenda spanning education, technology's societal impact, and migration selection. He investigates how human capital forms, moves across space, and interacts with technology. A defining feature of his work is the use of original administrative data from digitized archives, social security records, and government registries. He employs rigorous empirical methods including Regression Discontinuity Designs, Kink/Notch Designs, Bartik instruments, and network-based identification strategies to uncover causal relationships for evidence-based policymaking.
His recent publications reveal a strong focus on societal impacts of automation, with research connecting robot adoption to political polarization, marriage market dynamics, and fertility patterns. Anelli's work demonstrates how technological change affects labor markets, political behavior, and family formation across multiple dimensions. His research on university field of study shows substantial payoff differentials, with Economics and Business yielding approximately double the income of Humanities over a 26-year career.
- Distinguished CESifo Affiliate award for "Returns to elite university education"
- Research featured in The Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Repubblica, and Corriere della Sera
Professor Anelli has secured multiple research grants including ERC funding for "The Departed: Origins and Persistence of Organized Crime in the United States," EU PNRR funding for "The Political Ageing Trap," and PRIN-PNRR funding for research on automation and genetic endowment. His policy brief "University to work transition" examined employment skills and productivity in Italy as part of the JPM Foundation's "New Skills at Work" project.
Anelli leads research teams working on interdisciplinary projects including the study of LLMs' impact on workers, age-based policies, and the spillovers of child disability. His work bridges economics, political science, and demography to address pressing policy questions through rigorous empirical analysis and innovative data collection.
