Contacts:
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Università di Bologna
Piazza Scaravilli, 2
40126 Bologna
E-mail: l.bonacini@unibo.it
Current Position:
Since January 2022: Junior Assistant Professor, University of Bologna.
Supervisor: Professor Antonello Scorcu.
Previously:
December 2020 – January 2022: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Tutor: Professor Graziella Bertocchi.
November 2017 – March 2021: PhD at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Course in Labour, Development and Innovation. Thesis: “The cornerstone of individuals' progression: Rethinking the education after the COVID-19 pandemic”. Supervisor: Professor Massimo Baldini.
October 2019 – December 2019: Visiting student at Centre for Research in Economics and Management (CREA) – University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg (LU). Research project: “Climbing horses: intergenerational transmission in Ferrari’s land”. Supervisor: Dr. Majlinda Joxhe.
September 2019 – October 2019: Visiting student at Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette (LU). Research project: “How much more education to achieve more equality”. Supervisor: Dr. Aigul Alieva.
Selected publications
Bonacini L., Gallo G. and Scicchitano S. (2024). Does working from home increase the gender wage gaps? Insights from an Italian survey of occupations. Feminist Economics, 30(2), 53-88. DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2024.2326509.
Bonacini L., Brunetti I. and Gallo G. (2024). Choose the school, choose the performance: new evidence on determinants of students’ performance in eight European countries. Applied Economics, 56(6), 692-707. DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2170968.
Bonacini L., Gallo G. and Patriarca F. (2023). Unraveling the controversial effect of Covid-19 on college students’ performance. Nature Scientific Reports, 13.15912. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42814-7
Bertocchi G., Bonacini L. and Murat M. (2023). Adams and Eves: High School Math and the Gender Gap in Economics Majors. Economic Inquiry, 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/ecin.13152.
Bonacini L., Gallo G. and Scicchitano S. (2021). Working from home and income inequality. Risks of a 'new normal' with COVID-19. Journal of Population Economics, 34, 275–301. DOI: 10.1007/s00148-020-00800-7.
Bonacini L., Gallo G. and Patriarca F. (2021). Identifying policy challenges of COVID-19 in hardly reliable data and judging the success of lockdown measures. Journal of Population Economics, 34, 303–360. DOI: 10.1007/s00148-020-00799-x.
Teaching:
2023/2024
International economics (10 hours); Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Bologna.
Microeconomics (30 hours); Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Bologna.
Public economics (20 hours); Department of Political and Social Sciences-University of Bologna
2022/2023
Microeconomics (30 hours); Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Bologna.
Public economics (20 hours); Department of Political and Social Sciences-University of Bologna
Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/lucabonacini
My CV is available at the following link.
