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Publications

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Running the Risk: Immunity and Mobility in Response to a Pandemic (with A. Geraci, G. Mastrobuoni, and S. Weidenholzer

European Economic Review, 117, 105057, 2025

Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers (with L. Giua and R. Nisticò) 

Demography, 11996794, 2025

Sibling Correlations and Intergenerational Mobility across Immigrant Groups (with M. ColagrossiA. GeraciL. Giua, and G. Mazzarella) [WP] 

Journal of Population Economics, 38, 38, 2025

Migration at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations (with G. Mastrobuoni and V. Maheshri)

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16, 2, 2024

Media coverage: Bloomberg, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Monde

Opium Price Shocks and Prescription Opioids in the US (with L. Giua and R. Nisticò) 

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 12584, 2023

Media brief: EEA​2019

This Site Is Closed! The Effect of Decommissioning Mining Waste Facilities on Mortality in the Long Run (with L. Giua

 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 119, 10279, 2023

Intimate Partner Violence and Help-seeking: The Role of Femicide News (with M. Colagrossi, D. DragoneA. GeraciL. Giua, and E. Iori

Journal of Health Economics, 87, 102722, 2023

Media coverage: Lavoce, Corriere

Can Relief Measures Nudge Compliance in a Public Health Crisis? Evidence from a Kinked Fiscal Policy Rule (with G. MazzarellaA. Geraci, and F. Sabatini)  

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 202, 407-428, 2022

Media coverage: IZA Newsroom, IZA Opinions, Lavoce 

Perceived Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Italy (with G. MazzarellaA. Geraci, and F. Sabatini) 

Health Economics, 1-10, 2022

Media coverage: Lavoce, Voxeu

Hang Up on Stereotypes: Domestic Violence and Anti-Abuse Helpline Campaign (with M. Colagrossi, A. Geraci, and L. Giua) 

Contemporary Economic Policy, 1-27, 2022

Media coverage: Lavoce

The Unexpected Influencer: Pope Francis and European Perception of the Recent Refugee Crisis (with G. Mazzarella, E. Meroni, and L. Tiozzo Pezzoli)

Oxford Economic Papers, gpac003, 2022

Are Wind Turbines a Mafia Windfall? The Unintended Consequences of Green Incentives (with A. Geraci) 

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 103691, 2021

Media coverage: Lavoce, ItaliaOggi

The Intended and Unintended Effects of Opioid Policies on Prescription Opioids and Crime (with L. Giua

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 21(2), 751-792, 2021

Policy brief: RES​2019

Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting (with M. Bratti, E. Havari, G. Mazzarella, and E. Meroni)

The Journal of Urban Economics, 120, 2020​  [WP version] ​​​

Winner of the 2018 Ezio Tarantelli award [who is Ezio Tarantelli?] 

Global arms trade and oil dependence (with V. Bove and R. Nisticò) ​​​

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 34 (2): 272-299, 2018

Media coverage: The Conversation, The Independent, The Wire, Money Week

No Free Lunch, Buddy: Housing Transfers and Informal Care Later in Life (with E. Ciani)

Review of Economics of the Household, 16 (4): 971-1001​, 2018

Book chapter

Does the Road to Happiness Depend on the Retirement Decision? Evidence from Italy (with G. Mazzarella)

Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation, 2019, Springer, 237-248

Media coverage: How can EU policy benefit from new microdata?

Working papers

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Addictive Consumption, Imperfect Substitutes, and Self Control: A Model and an Application to Slot Machines (with D. Dragone, and L. Giua)

Heterogenous latent factor models using horizontal kinship (with M. ColagrossiA. GeraciL. Giua, and G. Mazzarella)

 

The Unintended Consequences of Pandemic Lockdowns: Evidence on Domestic Violence in Italy (with A. Bochenkova, P. Buonanno, and S. Galletta)

 

Working in progress

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Cultural Codes, Institutions, and Crime. Enclosures and Violence in 19th Century Sardinia (with M. Nieddu) [Awarded the EIEF 2023 Grant]

 

What's in a Place? Municipal Mergers, Migration, and Identity (with A. Geraciand M. Nieddu)

Boatlifts Across the Mediterranean: Refugees in Small, Aging Italian Communities (with E. Cianiand R. Nisticò)

Policy reports

 

Publicly Available​​

Feasibility study for the overall impact evaluation of the European Social Fund (with G. Mazzarella, E. Meroni, P. Morsberger, and P. Paruolo)

EC publication: KJ-NA-28672-EN-N - 2017 - DOI: 10.2760/774879

Advanced counterfactual evaluation methods - Guidance document (with A. Geraci, and E. Meroni)

EC publication: KE-04-19-627-EN-N - 2019 - DOI: 10.2767/464242 ​​

Counterfactual impact evaluation of European Social Fund interventions in practice (with G. Santangelo)

EC publication: KE-02-20-333-EN-N - 2020 - DOI: 10.2767/55495

Restricted Access

Data provisions for evaluation in the MFF legislative proposals: the state of play

JRC Technical Report 114880​​

Guidance on the common monitoring and evaluation framework of the Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF)

JRC Technical Report 106351​​

Revision of the guidance document on the common monitoring and evaluation framework of the AMIF and ISF funds.

The guidance document builds on the indicators and evaluation questions included in the Delegated Regulation (EU) C(2016) 6265  adopted by the Commission on 03/10/2016

JRC Technical Report 108160

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