Matteo Bobba is currently a professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Previously, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Princeton University and a Research Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank.

His research lies at the intersection between development and labor economics, investigating questions related to human capital, inequality, and labor market policies in middle-income and developing countries.

He joined IZA as a research affiliate in November 2016 and became IZA Fellow in November 2021.