Massimiliano Bratti is a Professor of Economics at the University of Milan. He received a Doctorate in Economics (Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia Politica) from the University of Ancona (now Marche Polytechnic University) in 2001 and a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick in 2005.

He is mainly doing applied micro in the fields of labour, education, health and population economics. He has written on topics such as the effect of fertility on female labor force participation; the effect of immigration on trade, innovation and voting; the determinants of, and the pecuniary and nonpecuniary (health) returns to education; the determinants of student performance, among other topics.