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I am a PhD candidate in economics at Boston College. In 2024 I was a Dissertation Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and in 2025 I received the Econ JM Best Paper Award from the European Economic Association and the UniCredit Foundation.
My research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics, focusing on how household heterogeneity and search frictions interact to shape inequality and inform macroeconomic policy. I approach these questions by combining empirical analysis of rich microdata with quantitative models, and especially search and matching models and heterogeneous agents models.
I am on the 2025/2026 Job Market.
email: elena.pellegrini@bc.edu
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Search and Matching, Inequality