Biography

Enrico Benassi is a DPhil candidate in Social Policy at the University of Oxford. His research investigates how labour market and housing policies shape income and wealth inequality. He is a Teaching Assistant on undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Policy and Quantitative Analysis, and is a Research Assistant on DECIPHE, a project on intergenerational homeownership persistence. Before Oxford, he studied at LSE and Bocconi University and gained private-sector experience at Bain & Company. His research interests also include international and comparative political economy, economic sociology, and social policy.

Research Areas

Economic inequality

Programme Teams

Economics, Inequality & Opportunity (EIO)

Related Projects

Employment, Equity and Growth

This research programme supported by the Resolution Foundation showed that while rich countries have faced common challenges in an era of globalization and rapid technological change, institutions and policy responses mattered in the extent improvements in incomes and living standards were shared.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth

This project supported by the Nuffield Foundation investigated patterns of wealth transfer across generations in Great Britain compared with other rich countries and the implications for wealth inequality and taxation.