Francesca Molinari is an Italian economist and economic statististician specializing in theoretical and applied

econometrics Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics", '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

, whose research topics include

risk aversion In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if the average outcome of the latter is equal to or higher in monetary value than the more c ...

survey methodology Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey d ...

, and

set identification In statistics and econometrics, set identification (or partial identification) extends the concept of identifiability (or "point identification") in statistical models to environments where the model and the distribution of observable variables are ...

. She is H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Education and career

Molinari earned a

laurea In Italy, the ''laurea'' is the main post-secondary academic degree. The name originally referred literally to the laurel wreath, since ancient times a sign of honor and now worn by Italian students right after their official graduation ceremo ...

in economics from the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

in 1997, a master's degree from CORIPE Piemonte in 1998, and a Ph.D. from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

in 2003. Her dissertation, ''Contaminated, Corrupted, and Missing Data'', was supervised by Charles F. Manski. It won the Arnold Zellner Thesis Award in Econometrics and Statistics of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 27, 1839, and is the second-oldest continuous ...

. She became an assistant professor of economics at Cornell University in 2003, was tenured as an associate professor in 2009, added a joint appointment in statistics in 2013, and was promoted to full professor in 2014. She was given the H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professorship in 2017.

Book

With Ilya Molchanov, Molinari is the coauthor of the book ''Random Sets in Econometrics'' (Econometric Society Monographs, 60, Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Recognition

Molinari was elected as a Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics in 2019, and as a Fellow of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools in the practice of econometrics. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians o ...

in 2020.

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