Silvia VANNUTELLI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an Affiliate Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth Stigler Center, and a Northwestern Institute for Policy Research Fellow.

She is an applied economist who uses original and administrative data and rigorous empirical methods to answer policy-relevant questions. Her research focuses on core topics in public economics and political economy, that pertain to the collection of revenues and the allocation of government resources, the design of social insurance policies, and the role of institutions and political economy considerations in policymaking. Though early on in her academic career, Silvia Vanutelli has already published in the top-tier international reviews and he research supported by Northwestern.

Silvia Vanutelli’s website

Professor Vanutelli will be visiting with us throughout the academic year 2025-2026.