Placement Francesco Capozza: Berlin School of Economics
Francesco Capozza will join WZB and the Berlin School of Economics as a Research fellow (6 years) in the fall of 2023.
After completing the TI research master program (2019), Francesco pursued a PhD in Behavioral Economics under the supervision of Aurelien Baillon, Jan Stoop and Georg Granic at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University. Since the start of his PhD in 2019, Francesco studied the factors contributing to the social inequalities – a topic that gained unparalleled relevance during the Covid–19 pandemic.
His work has been presented at prestigious international academic conferences, including the CESifo Conference in Political Economy, NoBeC Early Career at UPenn. He also participated in summer schools as Max Planck Institute for Conflict and Redistribution and on Socio-Economic Inequalities at briq in Bonn. His work has been funded by Russell Sage Foundation Small Grand in Behavioral Economics, the EUR Trustfond, and Building Blocks Initiative.
Francesco established successful research collaborations with international coauthors at the University of Zurich, University of Cologne, Norwegian School of Economics, University of Copenhagen, University of Warwick, National University of Singapore, and Stanford University. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Zurich in Spring 2022 and at National University of Singapore in Fall 2022. Next to his research output, Francesco has supervised Bachelor and Master students’ theses at ESE, as well as teaching modules in Master Course in Experimental Economics. He will continue to research at the intersection between political economy, public economics and the economics of mental health with the aid of experimental methods, with a special focus on social inequalities.