Rocco is a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Oxford Department of International Development and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of African Economies in the Department of Economics, at the University of Oxford. Rocco is the Editor of the CSAE Working Papers series.
Rocco's research focuses on social protection and labour markets. In his current work, he is using experimental methods to study the potential to leverage innovations in the design and delivery of social protection systems to increase household resilience to poverty and to extreme climate events such as floods and droughts. In the past, he has researched labour markets, inequality, poverty alleviation, poverty dynamics, and social stratification, using a variety of methods, including longitudinal surveys, field experiments, qualitative studies, and behavioural lab experiments.