About
About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Tilburg University and a research affiliate at LEAP-INSPIRE Bocconi. I received my Ph.D. from Harvard in 2024 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2025. My research focuses on labor, education, and inequality.
My email is F.Miserocchi@tilburguniversity.edu. Here is my CV.
Working Papers
Discrimination through Biased Memory [PDF] (updated May 2026)
Best Paper Award in Gender Economics by Unicredit Foundation (2023)
AEA RCT R-0008921, AEA RCT R-0010756
Tracking Inequality: Teachers and the Allocation of Educational Opportunities (with Michela Carlana, Eleonora Patacchini; September 2026) [PDF]
The Race between Academia and Industry for AI Researchers (with Savannah Noray and Alice Wu; updated March 2026) [PDF]
Childhood Environment and Motherhood Penalties (with Antonio Coran and Malene Laczek; December 2023) [PDF]
Work in Progress
An Algorithmic Approach to Reducing Gender Discrimination: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Tracking Decisions (with Michela Carlana, Will Dobbie, and Eleonora Patacchini)
Humans, AI, and Ethnic Gaps (with Silvia Barbareschi and Angelica Bozzi)
Social Media, Misperceptions, and Migration Decisions (with Kevin Carney and Awa Ambra Seck)