Stefania Albanesi is a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is a macroeconomist with interests in public finance and labor economics. At Hoover she will be working on a project focused on the optimal design of household taxation schemes in a framework that includes labor supply, saving and retirement decisions.

In addition to her Hoover appointment, Albanesi is an associate professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. Her work on government policy has brought new knowledge on the link between inflation and inequality, the design of monetary institutions and capital income taxation in economies with incentive problems. Her contributions in labor economics have examined the link between medical progress and female labor force participation and fertility in US economic history and examined the role of statistical discrimination as a factor in gender earnings differentials.

Albanesi has written a number of research papers and articles that have appeared in leading economics journals. She has a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Bocconi University in Milan and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University.