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Economics PhD Candidate
Tommaso Crosta
I am a third-year PhD student in Economics at Bocconi University, advised by Thomas Le Barbanchon, Stefano Caria, and Dean Karlan. My research examines automation, social security, labour economics, and applied Bayesian statistics, with a focus on how technological change and social protection shape labour market outcomes.
Selected Work
A snapshot of current research on automation, social security, labour markets, and evidence synthesis.
Latest paper
Global Automation Atlas
A global, task-level atlas of automation exposure across 124 countries that distinguishes labour-substituting from labour-augmenting automation and shows how exposure varies by country, occupation, industry, and AI involvement.
Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of 50 Randomized Evaluations in 26 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A Bayesian meta-analysis of unconditional cash transfer programs that evaluates average impacts and tests key policy mechanisms across settings.
Research Interests
Automation
How automation reshapes tasks, production networks, and the distribution of economic opportunity across workers and countries.
Labour Economics
How automation is reshaping industrial relations and labour markets in low- and middle-income countries.
Applied Bayesian Statistics
Applications of Bayesian statistics to applied microeconomics, meta-analysis, and evidence synthesis.
Contact
I am always happy to hear from researchers, students, and potential collaborators.
Social Security
Social protection, household welfare, and the design of policies that shape economic opportunity in low- and middle-income countries.