Fabrizio Zilibotti
| Fabrizio Zilibotti | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
September 7, 1964 Bologna, Italy |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Institution | Yale University |
| Field |
Macroeconomics Political economics Economic Growth The Economy of China |
| Alma mater |
London School of Economics (Ph.D., 1994; M.Sc., 1991) Yale University (honorary M.A. privatim, 2018) University of Bologna (Laurea cum laude, 1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charlie Bean |
| Awards |
Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2009) Ciliegia d'Oro (2009), Sun Yefang Award (2012) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Fabrizio Zilibotti (born September 7, 1964) is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University.[1] Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London, the University of Zürich, and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm. He is a co-editor of Econometrica, a former managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies (2002-2006), and the former chief editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2009-2014). In addition, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth and of China Economic Review. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, of the NBER and of the CEPR, and a member of the Academia Europaea honoris causa. In 2016, Zilibotti was the President of the European Economic Association. He has published articles in several international journals, among them, the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Book
Love, Money, and Parenting. How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids
In course of publication by Princeton University Press (January 2019). Love, Money, and Parenting. How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids by Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti proposes an international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality. Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly authoritative and authoritarian, whereas Scandinavian parents tend to be more permissive. Why? Love, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces and growing inequality shape how parents raise their children. From medieval times to the present, and from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden to China and Japan, Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti look at how economic incentives and constraints--such as money, knowledge, and time--influence parenting practices and what is considered good parenting in different countries. Through personal anecdotes and original research, Doepke and Zilibotti show that in countries with increasing economic inequality, such as the United States, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 1960s and '70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity. Growing inequality has also resulted in an increasing "parenting gap" between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect of diminished social mobility and fewer opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. In nations with less economic inequality, such as Sweden, the stakes are less high, and social mobility is not under threat. Doepke and Zilibotti discuss how investments in early childhood development and the design of education systems factor into the parenting equation, and how economics can help shape policies that will contribute to the ideal of equal opportunity for all.[2]
Selected publications
His research interests include economic growth and development, the economic development of China, political economy, macroeconomics, financial economics, and economics and culture.
- Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2017). "Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission". Econometrica. 85 (5): 1331–1371. doi:10.3982/ECTA14634.
- Koenig, Michael; Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2017). "Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa". Econometrica. 85 (4): 1093--1132. doi:10.3982/ECTA13117.
- Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2017). "Growing and Slowing Down Like China". Journal of the European Economic Association. 15 (5): 943–988. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvx018.
- Koenig, Michael; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2016). "Innovation vs. Imitation and the Evolution of Productivity Distribution". Theoretical economics. 11 (3): 1053–1102. doi:10.3982/TE1437.
- Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2015). "Sharing High Growth across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China". American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. 7 (2): 1–39. doi:10.1257/mac.20130322.
- Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2013). "War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust, and Conflict". Review of Economic Studies. 80 (3): 1114–1147. doi:10.1093/restud/rdt003.
- Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2012). "Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt". Econometrica. 80 (6): 2785–2803. doi:10.3982/ECTA8910.
- Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2011). "Growing Like China". American Economic Review. 101 (1): 196–233. doi:10.1257/aer.101.1.196.
- Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2008). "Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 123 (2): 747–793. doi:10.1162/qjec.2008.123.2.747.
- Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2008). "The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India". American Economic Review. 98 (4): 1397–1412. doi:10.1257/aer.98.4.1397.
- Acemoğlu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2007). "Technology, Information, and the Decentralization of the Firm". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 122 (4): 1759–1799. doi:10.1162/qjec.2007.122.4.1759.
- Acemoğlu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2006). "Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth". Journal of the European Economic Association. 4 (1): 37–74. doi:10.1162/jeea.2006.4.1.37.
- Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2005). "The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation". American Economic Review. 95 (5): 1492–1524. doi:10.1257/000282805775014425.
- Hassler, John; Rodriguez Mora, Jose V.; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2003). "The Survival of the Welfare State". American Economic Review. 93 (1): 87–112. doi:10.1257/000282803321455179.
- Acemoğlu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2001). "Productivity Differences". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 116 (2): 563–606. doi:10.1162/00335530151144104.
- Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (1999). "Unemployment vs. Mismatch of Talents: Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits". The Economic Journal. 109 (455): 266–291. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00432.
- Acemoğlu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (1997). "Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification, and Growth". Journal of Political Economy. 105 (4): 709–751. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.680.8598. doi:10.1086/262091.
Awards
In 2009, Zilibotti received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association for “greatly [improving] our understanding of how technological innovation affects economic growth at different stages of economic development. He also contributed to the positive analysis of the welfare state, explaining how economic and political forces interact to shape government redistribution.". Zilibotti shared the prize with John van Reenen of the London School of Economics.
In 2012, Zilibotti received the Sun Yefang Award of the Chinese Academy of Social Science for his paper Growing like China (with Zheng Song and Kjetil Storesletten)[3]
