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Economics PhD Candidate
Tommaso Crosta
I am a third-year PhD student in Economics at Bocconi University. My research sits at the intersection of development and labour economics, with a focus on how institutions, structural change and social protection shape labour market outcomes.
Selected Work
A snapshot of current research on automation, workplace institutions, social protection, 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.
Union Delegates Incentives and Firm-level Outcomes
A study of how the electoral accountability of workplace union representatives affects employment outcomes, bargaining content, and within-firm inequality.
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
Labour Economics
How automation is reshaping industrial relations and labour markets in low- and middle-income countries.
Bayesian Methods
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.