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Alessandro Tarozzi, Assistant Professor, Economics

Contact Info:

Office Location:	202 Social Sciences
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1877
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.econ.duke.edu/~taroz

Education:

PhD	Princeton University	2002
M.A. with distinction	Università Bocconi (Italy)	1996
Laurea (B.A.) summa cum laude	Università di Bologna (Italy)	1995

Specialties:

Development Economics
Econometrics

Research Interests: Development Economics, Applied Microeconometrics and Microeconometrics

Alessandro Tarozzi joined Duke's faculty in the Fall, 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He received his B.A. in Economics (1995) from Universita' di Bologna, and M.A. in Economics (1996) from Universita' Bocconi in Milan. His research interests encompass applied development economics, program evaluation, and more generally applied and theoretical microeconometrics. Professor Tarozzi's research in Development Economics has focused so far on the evaluation of a large poverty alleviation program, the Indian Public Distribution System, and on issues related to poverty measurement and child nutrition in India. He is also involved in theoretical econometric work concerning estimation using data belonging to different datasets. He teaches a course in econometrics for undergraduates, and a graduate course in applied microeconometrics.

Areas of Interest:

Development Economics
Microeconometrics

Keywords:

Development Economics • Poverty • Econometrics • India

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Andrea Velasquez  
• Ryan Brown  
• Evan Peet  
• Gabriela Farfan  
• Eva Cas  
• Daniel R. LaFave  
• Kristin Johnson  
• Maria Genoni  
• Renzo Massari  
• Omari H. Swinton  
• Martin Salm  

Working Papers   (More Publications)

1. Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan, Brian Blackburn, Dan Kopf, Lakshmi Krishnan and Joanne Yoong., Micro-loans, bednets and malaria: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Orissa (India) (2010)
2. Aprajit Mahajan and Alessandro Tarozzi, Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide Treated Nets (2010)
3. Aprajit Mahajan and Alessandro Tarozzi, Bednets, Information and Malaria in Orissa (2010)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Lori Bennear, Alessandro Tarozzi, H B Soumya, Alex Pfaff, Ahmed Kazi Matin and Lex van Geen, Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Submitted, 2010)
2. Irene Brambilla, Guido Porto and Alessandro Tarozzi, Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish, Review of Economics and Statistics (Accepted, 2010)
3. Patricia Foo, Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong, Lakshmi Krishnan, Danel Kopf and Brian Blackburn, Lymphatic Filariasis in Orissa, India: Expanded Endemic Range and A Call to Re-evaluate Targeting of Mass Drug Administration Programs, Accepted for Publication at Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2010)
4. Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan , Joanne Yoong and Brian Blackburn, Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa (India), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, vol. 99 no. 2 (2009), pp. 231-235
5. A. Tarozzi, A. Deaton, Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91 no. 4 (2009), pp. 773-792