

Eliana La Ferrara
Professor of Economics, Bocconi University and CEPR Research Fellow
Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Economics and Director of the Bachelor of Economics and Social Sciences (CLES) at Università Bocconi. She is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) at Bocconi. She is a member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN) and of the council of the European Economic Association. In 1997 she was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Professor in 2006 at the Université de Namur (Belgium). La Ferrara is also the Associate Editor of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of African Economies.
Recent work by Eliana La Ferrara
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The power of edutainment: Evidence from Brazil and Nigeria
Telenovelas in Brazil helped reduce fertility rates, while an MTV drama increased knowledge about HIV in Nigeria and encouraged safer sexual practices
Published 28.04.21
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How inheritance reform can hurt education
Evidence from Ghana shows that policy reforms on land titling and land rights have implications beyond their impact on agricultural productivity
Published 19.06.19
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Did MTV really help prevent HIV?
Evidence from Nigeria suggests that edutainment can promote safer sexual practices and reach a large portion of the population at a low cost
Published 03.11.18
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Building a functional state in difficult places
Eliana La Ferrara outlines four ways to improve state functionality in fragile environments.
Published 01.06.18
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The entertaining way to behavioural change: Fighting HIV with MTV in Nigeria
Evidence from Nigeria suggests that TV shows can promote safer sexual practices mainly through learning, rather than social conformity
Published 23.05.18
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Building a functional state in difficult places
Eliana La Ferrara outlines four ways to improve state functionality in fragile environments.
Published 04.04.18
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Goals and gaps: Tackling educational segregation of immigrant children
Career counselling helps close the immigrant-native gap in high-school track choice, grade repetition, and cognitive skills
Published 12.03.18