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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

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

Demography, 11996794, 2025​

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Sibling Correlations and Intergenerational Mobility across Immigrant Groups (with M. Colagrossi, A. Geraci, L. Giua, and G. Mazzarella) [WP] 

Journal of Population Economics, 38, 38, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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Intimate Partner Violence and Help-seeking: The Role of Femicide News (with M. Colagrossi, D. Dragone, A. Geraci, L. Giua, and E. Iori) 

Journal of Health Economics, 87, 102722, 2023

Media coverage: Lavoce, Corriere

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

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

Media coverage: IZA Newsroom, IZA Opinions, Lavoce 

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

Health Economics, 1-10, 2022​

Media coverage: Lavoce, Voxeu

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?] 

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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

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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

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Book chapter

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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?

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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)

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Heterogenous latent factor models using horizontal kinship (with M. Colagrossi, A. Geraci, L. 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. Geraci, and M. Nieddu)

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

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Policy reports

 

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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

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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 ​​​

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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

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Restricted Access​

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

JRC Technical Report 114880​​

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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​​​​

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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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