Florencia Lopez Boo participated in the 2025 Petralia Applied Microeconomics Workshop

TIES Director Florencia Lopez Boo recently participated in the 2025 edition of the Petralia Applied Microeconomics Workshop!

A selected group of economists on topics ranging from political economy, development economics, and education to lab and field experiments shared their work in the lovely town of Petralia Sottana, Sicily.

Very grateful to Shanker Satyanath for the invitation! (NYU College of Arts and Science, Department of Economics and Department of Political Science).  

One highlight was the roundtable debate “New immigration: a solution to depopulation?” with the mayor of Petralia, Pietro Polito, and Italian researchers Claudio Deiana, Giuseppe Ippedico and Elisa Cavasino (see photos of graphs that show the trends of depopulation and how the young and highly skilled are four times more likely to migrate.)

It was also great to hear colleagues discuss issues such as social preferences for inequality and support for distribution in Italy, desegregation on schools and long term sexism in the Soviet Union, TV exposure and protests in the US and great presentation by Mariele Macaluso on the public housing and peer effects in the Piedmont region. 

Here’s a link to the workshop program: https://wp.nyu.edu/petralia2025/program/

🏷️ Maria Cubel, Giuseppe De Feo, #MarianaBlanco, #MarieleMacaluso