Professor of Economics at Università Cattolica in Milan; his research spans inequality, intergenerational mobility, income and earnings dynamics, the economics of education, and applied microeconometrics. His current projects exploit rich administrative data from Italy and Denmark to study earnings inequality, parental assortative mating, the heritability of labour market outcomes, and the effects of labour market institutions. He has held visiting and research positions at ISER (Essex), SFI (Copenhagen), and LISER (Luxembourg).