Luigi Pistaferri

Luigi Pistaferri is an Italian-American economist and the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is known for his research in labor and macroeconomics, focusing on family consumption, labor supply, welfare reform, and inequality. He is also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Institute for the Study of Labor, and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center on Longevity. He is the co-director or GRID. During the period 2012-17 he served as a co-editor of the American Economic Review; he is currently one of the co-editors of the Journal of Political Economy. He is the author of the book The Economics of Consumption: Theory and Evidence.