Davide Azzolini is an affiliated scholar in the Family and Financial Well-Being Division at the Urban Institute and a research fellow at the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy).

Azzolini’s work focuses on producing empirical evidence to inform policymaking and to enhance educational opportunities. He is interested in examining the relationship between wealth and educational inequality, as well as assessing the effectiveness of savings-based financial aid programs.

Azzolini was a visiting student at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and research collaborator at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He has a master’s degree in public policy analysis from COREP, Turin (Italy) and a PhD in sociology and social research from the University of Trento (Italy).