Alessandro Tarozzi, Senior Research Scholar

Please note: Alessandro has left the "Economics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Alessandro Tarozzi is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Economics at Duke University, which he joined in 2002. His teaching and research are generally focused on the subjects of development economics and microeconometrics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2002, and attended Universita' Bocconi in Italy to earn his M.A. in economics in 1996. Since he began his teaching career, Professor Tarozzi has taught both undergraduate and graduate students. Some of his courses include econometrics, applied microeconomics, and topics in development economics.

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

Education:

PhDPrinceton University2002
M.A. with distinctionUniversità Bocconi (Italy)1996
Laurea (B.A.) summa cum laudeUniversità di Bologna (Italy)1995
Specialties:

Development Economics
Econometrics
Research Interests: Development Economics, Applied Microeconometrics and Microeconometrics

Areas of Interest:

Development Economics
Microeconometrics

Keywords:

Development Economics • Poverty • Econometrics • India • malaria • bednets • beleifs • poverty • inequality • child nutrition • India • water quality • health • development economics

Current Ph.D. Students  

Working Papers

  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

  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
Conferences Organized