Marco Cosconati gained a master in economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Ph.D in economics at University of Pennsylvania, where he has been awarded with the Paul Taubman Memorial Prize for best empirical paper in 2009.
His research interests regard labor economics, in particular the analysis of the determinants of adolescent human capital. He is specialized in building and structurally estimating economic models, both with strategic interaction and an individual decision problem. He recently analyzed from the economic prospective the impact of parental non monetary incentives on the cognitive skills of children.