Francesco Caselli (born 14 October 1966) is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics at the

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(LSE). His work includes contributions to the understanding convergence and cross-country income differentials.

Biography

Caselli got his

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in Economics and Commerce from the

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in 1991 and his PhD in Economics at

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in 1997. He was an assistant professor of economics at the

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from 1997 to 2000, and moved to Harvard in 2000, where he was the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy from 2002 to 2005. He then moved to the LSE. He was the Managing Editor of ''

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'' from 2010 to 2014, and currently co-editor of ''

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''. He is the author of the book ''Technology Differences over Space and Time''. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. He is also a fellow of the

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(2019) and the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caselli, Francesco University of Bologna alumni Italian economists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Fellows of the Econometric Society 1966 births Living people Fellows of the European Economic Association