Luca Perdoni is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Yale University. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor and urban economics. He studies the effects of place-based policies and the social environment on educational outcomes, earning trajectories and wealth accumulation. Perdoni’s dissertation investigates the role of redlining and family structure as sources of socioeconomic gaps in the United States. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics at Collegio Carlo Alberto and the University of Turin.