Staff

Giovanni Cerulli is senior researcher (dirigente di ricerca) at CNR-IRCrES. He owns a degree in Statistics and Economics and a PhD in Economics from Sapienza University of Rome. His main areas of research are causal inference, program evaluation, and machine learning where he has developed new econometric and statistical models and several Stata routines. His major field of application is the economics of innovation although he has contributions also in other socio-economic areas. He is editor-in-chiefof theInternational Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, and coordinator of GRAPE (Research Group on the Analysis of Economic Policies). Giovanni is the author of the book: “Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs: Theory and Applications” (Springer, 2015; second edition, 2022), and of the book: “Fundamentals of Supervised Machine Learning: With Applications in Python, R, and Stata” (Springer, 2023). Giovanni has published his research in numerous high-quality national and international scientific journals. Also, he has taught several courses on causal inference, program evaluation, and Machine Learning in prestigiousinstitutions and is involved in the microeconometrics module of the Doctoral Program in Economics of Sapienza University.