Jérôme Adda earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) after studying biology at AgroParisTech and economics and statistics at ENSAE in Paris. He has been a professor of Economics at Bocconi since 2014, where he served as Vice-Rector between 2018 and 2022. He is also the Research Director at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin. Prior to that, he was a professor at the European University Institute (Florence) and University College London. He held visiting professor positions at Berkeley in 2006-07 and at Princeton in 2024.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was a managing editor for the Review of Economic Studies, 2013-2017 and served again in 2021.
His research interests include Health Economics, Labor Economics, Family Economics and Macroeconomics. His main contributions have been on the effect of public policies on health behavior, the analysis of the spread of diseases, the links between income and health, the interplay of fertility and careers, the role of human capital on career choices and wage growth over the life cycle. Many of his papers have been published in journals such as the JPE, the AER, the QJE, ReStud, and PNAS, as well as journals in other disciplines.