Pamela Giustinelli is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padova. Prof. Giustinelli is an applied microeconometrician interested in uncertainty, heterogeneity, and measurement. Prof. Giustinelli’s research explores the economics and econometrics of individuals’ expectations and other subjective phenomena, and how expectations and perceptions shape microeconomic behavior under uncertainty. It does so by combining applied microeconomic theory, theory-based survey measurement, and applied microeconometric methods. Much of Prof. Giustinelli’s work has a human-capital focus, with applications in the economics of education, the family, health, labor, climate change, and firm behavior, including questions at the intersections of these fields.

Giustinelli received a B.A. in Economics and Business from the University of Verona in 2003, an M.Sc. in Economics from Bocconi University in 2004, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 2005 and 2010 respectively. Before joining the University of Padova, Prof. Giustinelli worked in the US Health and Retirement Study division of the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center and in the Economics Department at Bocconi University.