BELLO Piera

POSIZIONE ATTUALE

10/2025 – presente: Professore Associato, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Bergamo (Italia)

FORMAZIONE

09/2012 – 12/2016: Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
02/2015 – 06/2015: Boston College, Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics
01/2013 – 01/2014: Studienzentrum Gerzensee, Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics
09/2008 – 04/2011: Bocconi University, M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences

PUBBLICAZIONI

1. Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians, Journal of Public Economics (2014)
2. Exchange rate effects on cross-border commuting, Journal of Economic Geography (2020)
3. Old before their time, International Tax and Public Finance (2020)
4. The politics of aging and retirement, Population Studies (2021)
5. The environmental cost and the accident externality of cross-border commuting, Economic Inquiry (2021)
6. Education and COVID-19 excess mortality, Economics and Human Biology (2022)
7. Gender price discrimination in the annuity market, European Economic Review (2023)
8. Annuity puzzle, Journal of Risk and Insurance (2024)
9. Alleviating Loneliness During COVID-19, Socio-Economic Planning Science (forthcoming, 2024)
10. Women Empowerment through Financial Literacy, JBEF (forthcoming)
11. Hard times for women in STEM, Journal of Economic Inequality (forthcoming)
12. Research Similarity and Women in Academia, Economic Journal (forthcoming)

GRANT E BORSE DI STUDIO

2023–24: MUR, PRIN-PNRR 2022, Principal Investigator
2023–24: MUR, PRIN 2022, Research Member
2023–24: Cariplo, Inequalities Research, Principal Investigator
2020–21: Return Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation
2019–20: Advanced Postdoc Mobility Fellowship, SNSF
2018: Premio per contributi scientifici su pari opportunità
2017–18: Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship, SNSF
2012: Borsa post-laurea, Dipartimento di Institutional Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University