Nicola Bianchi received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2015.  He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and a faculty research fellow at the NBER. Professor Bianchi's interests include the economics of education, labor economics, economic history, and innovation. 

In most of his research projects, Professor Bianchi exploits historical public policies to address economic questions that, although currently relevant, would be hard to tackle with only modern data.