BIO
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, the Journal of Public Economics, 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 of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a professor at University College London, a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. De Nardi received a BA from the University of Venice in Italy, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.