ENRICO MORETTI

moretti.jpgPhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Honorary Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Winner of the 2008 Carlo Alberto Medal


FIELDS
: Labor Economics, Political Economy, Economics of the Family, Economics of Crime

Personal Web Page: http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~moretti/



Short Bio

Born in Milan on December 2, 1968, Enrico Moretti holds a Laurea degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, and a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. After four years as Assistant Professor at UCLA, he moved to UC Berkeley where he is now Professor of Economics with the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Chair in Labor Economics.  He is Research Fellow of CEPR and IZA, and Research Associate of NBER.

He has received a number of honors, fellowships, and grants, including the first Young Labor Economist Award assigned by IZA in 2006 for an outstanding paper published by a young labor economist under the age of 40, two research grants from the National Science Foundation, and one research grant from the National Institute of Health.