Predoctoral Fellow @ Harvard • MSc in Economic & Social Sciences @ Bocconi • Cambridge, MA

• Predoctoral Fellow @ Harvard (Stefanie Stantcheva) - working at the Social Economics Lab
• Research Assistant @ fRDB (Boeri & Tabellini) — built an NLP pipeline on ~4M Twitter/X observations; trained BERT-based models; topic classification via manual labels and LLMs; NLI & few-shot experiments.
• Paper: Regional Minimum Wages and Labor Misallocation in Italy — Bocconi Economic Journal, Issue 1, 2025.
• Talks — 24th Carroll Round, Georgetown University (Apr 2025); XV fRDB Workshop, University of Florence (Sep 2025).
• Prior — Strategy & Consulting Intern (Applied Intelligence) @ Accenture; Computer Science Tutor @ Bocconi.

Python SQL Excel Stata R

NLP/LLMs: BERT LLM-based classification NLI few-shot OpenAI API

• Political-economy NLP pipeline — end-to-end data ingest, labeling, topic classification, and evaluation on large-scale social data (~4M tweets).
• Minimum wages & misallocation — empirical analysis on Italian labor market; presentation-ready figures and robustness checks.

• MSc, Economic & Social Sciences — Bocconi University (2024–2026, expected Dec 2026)
• BSc, Economic & Social Sciences — Bocconi University (2021–2024) — Thesis on minimum wages (supervisor: Tito Boeri)
• Exchange — Aarhus University (Spring 2024): Game Theory, International Trade, Finance, Sociology

Italian (native) • English (C1, IELTS 8.0) • French (B1)

• Deputy Director & Writer — Tra i Leoni (2022–2024)

• Email: gnespoli@fas.harvard.edu
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielenespoli