Research topic:

Applied Microeconomics, Education Economics, Formal and Non Formal Education, Gender Economics 

Elisa Baldazzi is a PhD student in Public Governance, Management and Policy at the University of Bologna, Department of Economics. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on education economics, gender, and social inequality, with particular interest in how institutional and social factors shape educational choices and socio-emotional skill development.

Elisa Baldazzi’s research interests lie at the intersection of education economics, gender, and social inequality. She has been working on a tool to measure teachers’ ability to recognize stereotypes in the school environment. This project, the Stereotype Identification Test (SIT), aims to assess whether teachers can identify stereotypes in images drawn from school textbooks, linking their responses to established measures of implicit and explicit bias. Additionally, she is conducting a follow-up project in which the SIT is applied to large language models (LLMs). This work uses a multidisciplinary framework combining insights from economics, linguistics, and NLP to evaluate the ability of LLMs to recognize and explain stereotypes in images. She is also developing research on the impact of the Scout movement in Italy and the UK, studying both individual-level outcomes—such as socio-emotional skill development—and local-level effects on youth outcomes, including criminality and school drop-out rates.

working paper: 

Seeing Sterotypes [https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02146]

Baldazzi, E., Biroli, P., Della Giusta, M., Dubois, F.

Hosted by:

Professor Almudena Sevilla