Marco Francesconi gained his PhD from New York University in 1995. In 1995 he moved to the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex where he worked until 2004. Since then, he has been at the Economics Department of the same University. Marco was the 2017 President of the European Society for Population Economics. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review and Co-editor of Labour Economics, and from January 2024 he will be the editor-in-chief of Labour Economics. Since 2013, Marco is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), the Institute for Labor Research (Bonn), and the CES-ifo network (Munich). His research interests are in labour and family economics, socio-genetics, gender, income inequality, early child outcomes and health. Marco’s work has recently appeared in the Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Political Economy, European Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Theory.