ERE - Empirical Research in Economics and Fondazione MPS awarded one scholarship, for a total amount of 12,000 euros, dedicated to the memory of Riccardo Faini and aimed to PhD students in economics in Italy. The amount of the scholarship was meant to be used by the winners to finance the collection of an original dataset.

The scientific committee (Tito Boeri from Bocconi University, Andrea Ichino from Università di Bologna and Claudia Olivetti from Boston University) has decided to assign the whole amount of 12,000 euros to the data collection project “The Homeless in the Metropolitan Area of Milan”. This project had been submitted by Michela Barga and Lucia Corno, both enrolled in the Bocconi University Ph.D. program.

 

The motivation can be summarized as follows:

- the interesting topic: this project will allow both the first complete census of the homeless population within an Italian metropolitan area and a detailed sample analysis to study the characteristics and problems of the homeless population;

-  the fact that the collected data will be easily used by other researchers once published on the ERE association website;

 - the quality of the submitted project, where all the steps of the data collection are described with full detail and technical competence;

- the capability to match ERE association funds with the contribution of other associations.