Jérôme Adda is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and prior to that, has been a professor at the European University Institute and at University College London. He received a Ph.D in Economics at the Sorbonne. He was a joint managing editor for the Review of Economic Studies, 2013-2017 and served again in 2021.

His research interests include labour economics, health economics and macro. He has published papers in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, ReStud and other journals as well as a book (Dynamic Economics: Quantitative Methods and Applications) at MIT Press, with Russ Cooper.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2007.