Chiara F. Del Bo is Associate Professor of Public Economics, Università degli Studi di Milano. She holds a PhD in Economics from Università degli Studi di Milano. She has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and a visiting scholar at the Economics Department of Boston College, USA. She also holds a Master degree in Economics (MEc) at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and graduated in Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano . Her research interests are in public economics, with an additional focus on regional and urban issues. Her research has appeared in international journals including: European Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Regional Studies.