Regular biography
Maurizio Mazzocco is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on family intertemporal decisions, heterogeneity in risk preferences and decisions under uncertainty, and political economy and development economics. He examines the effect of political incentives on economic development and the quality of life of individuals, as well as the mechanisms behind political decisions to engage in corruption using audit reports data from municipalities in Brazil. His work contributes to the fields of applied microeconomics, development, labor economics, and political economy.
Scholar-generated biography
Maurizio Mazzocco is a Professor of Economics at UCLA, specializing in applied economics, labor economics, and development economics. His research explores intertemporal household behavior, risk sharing, and the impact of policy on economic decisions. Mazzocco's work includes analyzing labor supply, wealth dynamics, and marriage decisions within households, as well as examining the role of taxation and public funds in shaping economic outcomes. He also investigates collective household behavior, heterogeneous risk preferences, and the effects of aggregate shocks on economic decisions. His research contributes to understanding how individual and household choices interact over time and under different economic conditions.