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Gabriella Conti is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and in the Social Research Institute at University College London. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Centre for Economic Policy Research and at IZA Bonn.

She holds a Doctorate from the University of Naples “Federico II” and a Ph.D. from the University of Essex. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Princeton and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining UCL, she was a Post-Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and then a Research Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy.

Her research areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. Her research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, and the behavioural and biological pathways through which early life shocks, investments and policies affecting child well-being have health consequences throughout the lifecourse. She has published in top journals in different disciplines, such as Science, Lancet, PNAS, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Human Resources, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.