Zachary Parolin is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Bocconi University in Milan and a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy.
His research focuses on the measurement and determinants of poverty and social inequality in high-income countries. Parolin leads an ERC Starting Grant (ExpPov) on the experience of poverty in the post-industrial economy. His research on poverty and inequality has been published in journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Demography, and more. His first book ("Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19") documents how policy actions during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the lowest poverty rate in U.S. history in 2020 and 2021.
Zachary Parolin joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in April 2023.
We use cookies to provide you with an optimal website experience. This includes cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site as well as cookies that are only used for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, you may not be able to use all of the site's functions.
Cookie settings
These necessary cookies are required to activate the core functionality of the website. An opt-out from these technologies is not available.
In order to further improve our offer and our website, we collect anonymous data for statistics and analyses. With the help of these cookies we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages on our website and optimize our content.