Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan and Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. His papers have been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Policy, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Labour Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the NBER Macroeconomics Annual. He has published 11 books with Oxford University Press, MIT Press, and Princeton University Press. He is the founder of the economic policy watchdog website www.lavoce.info and the scientific director of the Festival of Economics in Trento. Eleonora Patacchini is Associate Professor of Economics at Cornell University. She is also Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and at IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor. Her areas of interest include applied research in labour economics, cultural economics, regional and urban economics, social networks, economics of ethnic minorities, and crime. Her publications have appeared in leading general and field journals. Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics. He has published in academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of European Economic Association. His research has been featured in several popular Blogs and in media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Economist.
