Alessandro Iaria is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Alessandro does research on two main topics: (i) the economics of science and innovation, and (ii) empirical industrial organization. On a first series of projects, Alessandro has been studying the path-breaking developments of the Natural Sciences in the 20th century, their impact on technological progress, and the evolution of gender gaps in academia since the 1900. On a different line of research, he has been investigating several issues that commonly arise in the estimation of discrete choice models of demand and games, with applications to price discrimination in various industries.
2014 - PhD from Warwick.
2014/2017 - Assistant Professor at CREST.
2017/2020 - Lecturer at the University of Bristol.
2020/present - Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol
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The glass ceiling in the ivory tower: A century of gender gaps in academia across the globe
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- Gender 
- Labour Markets
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The importance of frontier knowledge for the generation of ideas
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- Economic history 
- Frontiers of economic research 
- Productivity and Innovation