Francesca Molinari

Francesca Molinari is Vice Dean for Education; Professor of Government and Policy; and Fellow-by-Courtesy in the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests are in econometrics, both theoretical and applied. Her theoretical work focuses on the study of identification problems and on proposing new methods for statistical inference in partially identified models and in the study of fairness-accuracy properties of algorithms. In her applied work, she has focused primarily on the analysis of decision-making under risk and uncertainty. She has worked on estimation of risk preferences using market level data, and on the analysis of individuals’ probabilistic expectations using survey data.

Molinari is the author of Random Sets in Econometrics (2018) and numerous journal articles. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. A former joint managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies, she currently serves as editor at the Journal of Political Economy.

Before Hopkins, Molinari was the H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University, and also a professor of statistics and data science in the Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science.

She earned three degrees in economics: a B.A. in 1997 from the Università degli Studi di Torino and an M.A. in 1998 from CORIPE Piemonte, both in Italy and a Ph.D. in 2003 from Northwestern University.