Riccardo Di Francesco
  • Home
  • Job Market
  • Research
  • Software
  • Teaching
  • Conferences
  • News
  • CV
I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market. Job market page →
Postdoctoral Researcher

Riccardo Di Francesco

University of Southern Denmark

I am an applied econometrician specialising in causal inference and causal machine learning, developing tools for heterogeneous treatment effects and ordered outcomes with applications to health and labour economics. My job market paper applies language models to Danish corporate disclosures to measure firms' orientation toward employee well-being, and uses within-worker variation from job mobility to estimate its causal effect on worker health using population-wide administrative registers. More broadly, my applied agenda examines how economic and social environments shape worker health, team production, and social preferences, drawing on data from administrative registers, professional sports leagues, and online platforms.

Job market paper: Well-being salience in corporate disclosures and worker health Details →

Portrait of Riccardo Di Francesco
3
Publications
4
R packages
20
Talks
1
Award

Research interests

Econometrics Causal inference Health economics Labour economics Machine learning

Recent news

Jan 2026 Aggregation trees published in Econometric Reviews.
Nov 2025 Ordered correlation forest featured in Il Messaggero · Awarded Emerging Econometrician award.
Oct 2025 Causal inference for qualitative outcomes published in Economics Letters.
View all news →

© 2026 Riccardo Di Francesco

Built with Quarto

GitHub · Scholar