Alessandro Tarozzi earned his PhD in Economics at Princeton University in 2002. Currently he is an Associate Professor at UPF and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Previously he was Senior Research Scholar and Assistant Professor at the Duke University. His research centers on factors that limit access and uptake of health-protecting technologies in developing countries. His work, which is mostly focused on India, also includes research on poverty estimation with missing data as well as on child nutritional status. His work has been published in American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, among others.