Olivia Masi

Welcome to my website!

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University and a Research Fellow at the AXA Gender Lab at Bocconi University. 

I am an applied microeconomist. My research uses administrative and survey data to study the economic determinants of intimate partner violence, the effects of gender-balancing policies in politics and the labor market, and gender gaps in education.

My job market paper, Call It Femicide: Legal Recognition, Victim Protection, and Domestic Violence (with Rui Costa, Beatriz Ribeiro and Matteo Sandi), asks whether criminal law can prevent domestic violence and change how victims use the state. We study Brazil’s 2015 recognition of femicide as qualified homicide using ten years of linked population, police, hospital and prison records.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Fiesole (Florence), Italy. My supervisors were Sule Alan and Andrea Ichino. I was a visiting graduate student at the London School of Economics from September 2021 to January 2022, hosted by Stephen Machin.

My research interests are:

• Intimate partner violence: economic determinants of perpetration and victimization; financial distress; sentencing policy.

• Gender economics: gender quotas in politics and management; workplace discrimination; family-formation policy.

• Economics of education: gender differences in time use, achievement, and labor market entry.

A full list of my papers is on the Research page. You can find my CV here and reach me at olivia.masi@aalto.fi.