Marco Francesconi

Research Fellow

University of Essex

mfranc@essex.ac.uk

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Marco Francesconi has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex since September 2004. Previously he has worked for nine years at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, where he continues to be a Research Fellow. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), the CES-ifo network (Munich), and the Centre for Household Income Labour and Demographic economics (Torino).

Marco's main area of research is labor economics, with special interest in family economics, intergenerational links, income inequality, and labor market dynamics. His recent work has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Internatioanl Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Economic Theory.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11361

Early Gender Gaps among University Graduates

Marco Francesconi, Matthias Parey

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 63-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10827

Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Melvyn Coles, Marco Francesconi

revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search with Multiple Attributes and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (1), 138-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10679

Moving On Up for High School Graduates in Russia: The Consequences of the Unified State Exam Reform

Fabian Slonimczyk, Marco Francesconi, Anna Yurko

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 117, 56-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9977

Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

Marco Francesconi, James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8849

The Cost of Binge Drinking

Marco Francesconi, Jonathan James

revised version published as "Liquid Assets? The Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129(621), 2090-2136