Daniele Coen-Pirani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics. His research interests in the area of human capital accumulation include the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S. and around the world, and the implications for inequality and efficiency of alternative approaches to financing primary and secondary education.

Coen-Pirani received his B.A. in Economics from the Universita' Commerciale L. Bocconi in 1995, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1998 and 2000, respectively.