Luigi Pistaferri (born 1968) is an Italian-American economist [1]and the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Economics at Stanford University.
[10]He earned his undergraduate degree in International Trade and Foreign Exchange Markets from the Istituto Universitario Navale (IUN, now Parthenope University) in 1993.
[11]Since 2013, he has held the position of Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
[5] Before joining Stanford, Pistaferri worked as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London from 1998 to 1999.
[15] His work often incorporates large-scale datasets and quantitative methods to analyze families' and individuals' behavior in response to economic policy changes.