Francesco Agostinelli, Assistant Professor of Economics, is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences. A leading scholar in labor economics and the economics of education, Agostinelli is an empirical microeconomist who conducts research on child development, education, family economics and applied econometrics. His recent work focuses on the determinants of children’s skill formation, family choices and educational investments in children, the role of socioeconomic environments, and the development of new methods for identifying the mechanisms driving inequality in economic opportunities. Agostinelli’s service and affiliations include not only departmental roles such as Ph.D. Admission Committee Member, Undergraduate Research Advisory Committee Member, Empirical-Micro Seminar Organizer, and Empirical-Micro Lunch Workshop Organizer, but also Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Children Program, Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center, a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth and Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago. This year he received Penn’s Kravis Award for Undergraduate Teaching in recognition of his outstanding teaching in economics.