Tommaso Porzio
Assistant Professor
Economics
Ph.D. in Economics, Yale University, 2016 (with distinction); M.A. and M.Phil. in Economics, Yale University, 2012; M.Sc in Economics, Bocconi University, 2012 (cum laude); B.Sc in Economics, Bocconi University, 2009 (cum laude)
Joined CBS in 2019
Office:
533
Kravis
E-mail:
[email protected]
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Tommaso Porzio is an assistant professor of macroeconomics in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. His research primarily studies the role of human capital for growth and economic development with a focus on understanding the barriers that may prevent individuals from exploiting their talent. His work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy and in the Journal of Human Capital.
Professor Porzio is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale. Prior to joining Columbia, he was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Porzio received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and his Master and Bachelor degrees in Economics, Social Sciences, and Management from Bocconi University.
Teaching
Spring 2022
Applied Macroeconomics and Finance
(PHD)
Spring 2021
Global Economic Environment
(MBA)
Fall 2021
Global Economic Environment
(MBA)
Spring 2020
Global Economic Environment
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Research
Journal articles
Life-Cycle Wage Growth across Countries
In Journal of Political Economy
(2018)
Coauthor(s): David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian, Todd Schoellman
Life-Cycle Human Capital Accumulation across Countries: Lessons from US Immigrants
In Journal of Human Capital
(2018)
Coauthor(s): David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian, Todd Schoellman
Working papers
The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Sebastian Heise, Tommaso Porzio
Achieving Scale Collectively
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
The Human Side of Structural Transformation
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tommaso Porzio, Federico Rossi, Gabriella Santangelo
Cross-Country Differences in the Optimal Allocation of Talent and Technology
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Tommaso Porzio
Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis Using Micro Data
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Abhijit Banerjee, Xin Meng, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian