Erich Battistin, Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Erich Battistin is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, a Faculty Associate at the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC), a Senior Research Fellow at FBK IRVAPP, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work). Before joining Maryland, Dr. Battistin held positions at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Padua, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His research develops econometric methods for causal inference and policy evaluation and applies them to questions in labor economics, education, consumption, household behavior, and measurement, using large administrative and survey data. He has served as principal investigator on projects funded by national and international organizations in Europe and the United States.