Eugenio Zucchelli

Eugenio Zucchelli is an applied microeconomist with broad research interests in the economics of health and human capital. He is currently funded by a 5-year Tomás y Valiente tenure-track Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS). As part of this Fellowship he is now based at the Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor with tenure) at Lancaster University, UK, and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York, UK.

He is also a Visiting Researcher at Lancaster University, UK; a Research Fellow at IZA; a Faculty Associate at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE), University of Toronto; a Fellow at Advanced HE (formerly the UK Higher Education Academy); and an Affiliate to the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), University of York, UK. He has been a visiting scholar at Monash University, (Melbourne, Australia); University of Toronto; Curtin University (Perth, Australia); UC3M; CEMFI and University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

His research includes projects on the interactions between human capital and health; the economics of addiction and risky health-behaviours; the relationship between health and labour supply; and the role of cognitive and noncognitive skills in human development. The research agenda of his Tomás y Valiente Valiente Fellowship focuses on the intergenerational transmission of risky behaviours.