Piera Bello is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).  Before joining the University of Bergamo, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University College London and at the University of Zurich. Her research has focused on gender and education economics, and household finance.

Her current research agenda aims at understanding the role of teachers’ stereotypes in affecting the performance and education choices of students, and at investigating the determinants of female under-representation in academia

Selected publications

Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians (2014), with A. Baltrunaite, A. Casarico and P. Profeta Journal of Public Economics, 118: 62-74

Gender price discrimination in the annuity market: Evidence from Chile (2023) European Economic Review, 151:104356

Exchange rate effects on cross-border commuting: Evidence from the Swiss-Italian border (2019) Journal of Economic Geography, 20 (4): 969-1001

Education and COVID-19 Excess Mortality (2022)"  with L. Rocco Economics and Human Biology, 47:101194