Giovanni Gallipoli is a Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC. Gallipoli's research focuses on how heterogeneity shapes individual behaviors and aggregate economic outcomes. Giovanni has worked on a variety of topics, including the general equilibrium effects of policies that promote skill formation; the link between skill heterogeneity in the working population and a country's comparative advantage; family influences on long-term outcomes, and intergenerational mobility on labor supply and consumption; the link between occupation heterogeneity and inequality; the dynamic production of financial literacy; and firm-level determinants of skill returns.
Giovanni is a recipient of the Killam Research Award, the FEEM Award, and the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association. He is a former Fulbright scholar, a Weatherhall fellow, and a CEPR research fellow. He serves as an external member of the board of overseers for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and as an assistant editor at the Journal of Political Economy.
Gallipoli is an alumnus of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and the University of Pisa in Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University College London in the UK.