Mariacristina De Nardi is the Thomas Sargent Professor at the University of Minnesota, a Consultant for the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; and a Faculty Research Fellow of the CEPR and NBER. Her research focuses on savings, wealth inequality, Social Security, health, medical expenses, entrepreneurship, wage and earnings dynamics, and taxation.
De Nardi's research has been published in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the Economic European Association, and the Review of Economic Dynamics.
Before joining the University of Minnesota in 2019, De Nardi was a senior scholar at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a professor at UCL, a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. De Nardi received a B.A. from the University of Venice in Italy and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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Health inequality and economic disparities by race, ethnicity, and gender
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- Gender 
- Health Economics 
- Race & Inequality

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Wage risk, and government and spousal insurance
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- Poverty and Income Inequality 
- Welfare state and social Europe

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Family and government insurance: Wages, earnings, and income risks in the Netherlands and the US
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- Labour Markets 
- Welfare state and social Europe

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Health shocks, consumption fluctuations, and optimal insurance
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- Health Economics

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Marriage-related taxes and Social Security benefits are holding back women’s labour supply in the US
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- Gender 
- Labour Markets 
- Taxation