Bio
Luca Facchinello is the PI for the project "PFAS Exposure and Children Development: Evidence from an Italian Environmental Incident," hosted by Collegio Carlo Alberto, awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, and completely funded by Compagnia di San Paolo via Trapezio grant. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and has previously worked as Assistant Professor at Singapore Management University, where he was affiliated to the Centre for Research on the Economics of Ageing (CREA). He has been PI for four research projects, totaling more than 200,000 euros in research funding. His primary research area is the Economics of Education, where he focuses on how information, in the form of grades or education surveys, peer interaction, and exposure to non-standard inputs like children TV, affect education choices, skill development and labor market outcomes. This line of research provided him with expertise in employing quasi-experimental methods of policy evaluation, register data and longitudinal surveys matched to register data. He has more recently worked in the area of Health Economics, where he experimentally studied whether information provision can affect policy take-up and behavior of policy targets. He also run a set of field experiments in the context of higher education, gaining expertise in survey and experimental design. His current work examines how PFAS exposure affects children’s health and cognitive development, mortality in the exposed population, and on how the discovery of Europe’s largest PFAS contamination case impacted the affected community.
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