I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, and an Associate Professor (untenured) in the MEDS Department of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University [on leave 2024-2025].
I am also a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER, and a Research Fellow at CEPR, a Research Affiliate at IGIER and at LEAP.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Harvard University in May 2018.
My research is in the areas of political economy, organizational economics, and development economics.
You can find my CV here, and my Research Statement here.
Contact information:
Email: edoardo.teso@unibocconi.it edoardo.teso@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Mailing Address:
Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 20136 Milano, office 5-d2-04
Publications
"Influence-Seeking in U.S. Corporate Elites’ Campaign Contribution Behavior”. Forthcoming at the Review of Economics and Statistics
Covered by Kellogg Insight
”Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations” (with Jörg Spenkuch and Guo Xu) Econometrica, 2023, 91(4), 1171-1203
Also NBER Working Paper 28673. Covered by Kellogg Insight, Marginal Revolution. Video summary by Econimate
"Economic Recessions and Congressional Preferences for Redistribution" (with Maria Carreri) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105(3), 723-732.
"Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations" (with Emanuele Colonnelli and Mounu Prem) American Economic Review, 2020, 110(10), 3071-99. Online Appendix.
Also CEPR Discussion Paper 13697 . Covered by Vox, World Bank Development Impact Blog, VoxDev. Video summary by Econimate
“The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles: Evidence from the Transatlantic Slave Trade" .
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17(2), 497-534.
Covered by Vox
“Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution" (with Alberto Alesina and Stefanie Stantcheva)
American Economic Review, 2018, 108(2), 521-554. Online Appendix.
Also NBER Working Paper 23027. Covered by The Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, Vox, Kellogg Insight
Working Papers
”State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State over 100 Years” (with Nicola Mastrorocco)
Revise and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
Also NBER Working Paper 31591 and CEPR Discussion Paper 18687. Covered by Kellogg Insight, Marginal Revolution
”Politics at Work” (with Emanuele Colonnelli and Valdemar Pinho Neto)
Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review
Also NBER Working Paper 30182 and CEPR Discussion Paper 17408. Covered by Kellogg Insight , BBC
”Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment On Public Procurement in Uganda” (with Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, and Edwin Muhumuza)
Also NBER Working Paper 32170.
Work in Progress
“Constraints in Bureaucratic Hiring and Public Sector Performance” (with Maria Carreri, Edoardo Di Porto, Carlo Medici, and Silvia Vannutelli). Project made possible thanks to the Visitinps Scholars program, granting access to the universe of Italian Social Security Data.
“The Influence of Public Safety Unions in Local Elections. Evidence from U.S. Cities Spending and Performance” (with Maria Carreri and Rui Yu) .
Non-Peer Reviewed
”Bureaucracy VoxDev review” (with Guo Xu, Erika Deserranno, Diana Moreira), 2023
Discussions
2019 NBER Summer Institute, Political Economy
2019 NBER Chinese Economy Working Group