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Summary

Name Lidia Ceriani
Label Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Economic Statistics
Email lidia.ceriani@univr.it
Url https://lidiaceriani.github.io/
Summary Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the University of Verona. Her research focuses on measuring poverty and inequality and examining how public policies influence household welfare. Before joining Verona, she taught at the University of Bologna and at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe, and from 2017 to 2024 she served as Assistant and then Associate Professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to transitioning to academia, she worked as an Economist at the World Bank in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, contributing to the 2017 World Development Report.

Work

  • 2026.01 - Present

    Italy

    Section Editor for Economics
    Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies (SIEDS)
    Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica.
  • 2025.10 - Present

    Verona, Italy

    Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
    University of Verona, Department of Economics
    Economic Statistics.
  • 2025.01 - Present

    Bologna, Italy

    Adjunct Professor
    University of Bologna
    Public Economics, M.Sc. in Politics, Administration and Organization.
  • 2024.08 - 2025.07

    Bologna, Italy

    Adjunct Professor
    Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS Europe)
    International Economics.
  • 2023.01 - 2026.01

    Italy

    Editorial Board Member
    Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies
    Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica.
  • 2020.08 - 2024.08

    Washington, DC, USA

    Associate Professor (NTL)
    Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service
    Non-tenure line faculty, graduate and undergraduate teaching.
  • 2018.06 - 2018.06

    Varese, Italy

    Visiting Professor
    Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Department of Economics
  • 2017.08 - 2020.07

    Washington, DC, USA

    Assistant Professor (NTL)
    Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service
    Non-tenure line faculty, graduate and undergraduate teaching.
  • 2017.08 - Present

    Washington, DC, USA

    Consultant
    The World Bank, Poverty and Equity Global Practice
    Poverty and inequality measurement, distributional analysis and tax-benefit simulations.
  • 2016.09 - 2017.07

    Washington, DC, USA

    Economist
    The World Bank, Development Economics Department
    Contributor to the 2017 World Development Report, Governance and the Law.
  • 2014.09 - 2016.08

    Washington, DC, USA

    Extended Term Consultant
    The World Bank
    Poverty and inequality analysis.
  • 2012.09 - 2014.08

    Washington, DC, USA

    Short Term Consultant
    The World Bank
    Distributional and policy impact analysis, Western Balkans and EU12 countries.
  • 2008.09 - 2014.08

    Editorial Assistant
    Review of Income and Wealth
  • 2008.09 - 2012.08

    Milan, Italy

    Lecturer
    Bocconi University, Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management
    Public Economics and Principles of Economics.
  • 2007.01 - 2007.09

    Riverside, CA, USA

    Visiting Scholar
    University of California, Riverside, Department of Economics
    Invited by Prof. Prasanta Pattanaik.

Education

  • 2003.09 - 2006.09

    Pavia, Italy

    Ph.D.
    University of Pavia
    Public Economics
  • 1998.09 - 2003.07

    Milan, Italy

    Degree (110/110 magna cum laude)
    Bocconi University
    Economics and Social Sciences

Awards

Certificates

National Scientific Qualification, Associate Professor - 13/D2 Economic Statistics
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, Italy 2026-06-17
National Scientific Qualification, Associate Professor - 13/A1 Political Economy
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, Italy 2022-10-03
National Scientific Qualification, Associate Professor - 13/A3 Public Economics
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, Italy 2022-09-29

Skills

Research Areas
Poverty and inequality measurement
Multidimensional well-being
Distributional impact of public policy
Applied welfare economics
Empirical Methods
Microeconometrics
Distributional analysis
Tax-benefit microsimulation
Software
Stata (advanced)
R (advanced)
Mathematica (working knowledge)
LaTeX (advanced)
Microsoft Office (advanced)

Languages

Italian
Native
English
Full professional proficiency; language of instruction and research since 2007
Spanish
Reading proficiency, conversational
French
Intermediate spoken and reading, basic writing

Interests

Professional Memberships
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ)
International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW)
Societa Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica (SIEDS)
Societa Italiana di Economia Pubblica (SIEP)
Editorial and Professional Service
Referee for Journal of Economic Inequality, Review of Income and Wealth, Hacienda Publica Espanola, Metroeconomica, Review of Development Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, European Planning Studies
External Examiner, Ph.D. program, Sapienza University of Rome (2026)
External Examiner, Ph.D. in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions, University of Insubria (2019, 2021)