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Alessandra M. Casella, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics and Political Science

Alessandra Casella is professor of economics and professor of political science at Columbia University and a fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and the Center for Economic Policy Research (London, UK).  She is a graduate of Universita’ Bocconi and received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT. She has taught at UC Berkeley and held a position as Directeur d’ Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (Paris and Marseilles).

She is a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, has been a Guggenheim fellow, a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, a Russell Sage fellow and a Straus fellow at the NYU Law School. Casella is on the board of editors of the American Economic Review and is the director of the Columbia Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences.

Casella’s recent work is in political economy and experimental economics.