Francesca Molinari

Economics/Statistics and Data Science
H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor in Economics, College of Arts and Sciences/Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/ILR School

Contact Information

458 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
p: (607) 255-6367

Francesca Molinari

Economics/Statistics and Data Science
H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor in Economics, College of Arts and Sciences/Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/ILR School

Expertise

Econometric theory; applied econometrics

Current Research Interest

Partial identification analysis; statistical inference; estimation of risk preferences; structural estimation; rounding of probabilistic expectations

Distinction

H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice International Fellow
Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists
Merrill Scholars Program Outstanding Educator Citations
American Statistical Association Zellner Thesis Award for Best Thesis in Business and Economic Statistics

Selected Publications

Barseghyan, Levon, Francesca Molinari, Ted O’Donoghue, and Joshua C. Teitelbaum. “The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choice.” American Economic Review 103, no. 6 (2013): 2499-2529.

Beresteanu, Arie, Ilya Molchanov, and Francesca Molinari. “Sharp Identification Regions in Models with Convex Moment Predictions.” Econometrica 79, no. 6 (2011): 1785-1821.

Cornell Research Website Article

The Beauty of Logic and Rigor in Data