Research

"Modern family? The gendered effects of marriage and childbearing on voter turnout"  (with Enrico Cantoni, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Chiara Monfardini, and Jerome Schäfer), 2023, British Journal of Political Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000680.  

"Making unequal democracy work? The effect of income on voter turnout in Northern Italy" (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni, and Jerome Schäfer), 2022, American Journal of Political Science,  66(3), 745-761.

"Immigration, ethnic diversity and voting: the role of individual income" (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Chiara Monfardini), 2020, European Journal of Political Economy, vol 61.

“Politicians' coherence and government debt” (with Paolo Roberti), 2020, Public Choice, 182, 73-91.

"Income inequality and banking crises: Testing the level hypothesis directly" (with Flavio Delbono, Peter Karlström, and Sergio Pastorello), 2019, Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 62.   

“Intergenerational altruism and house prices: evidence from bequest tax reforms in Italy” (with Filippo Taddei and Giulio Zanella), 2017, European Economic Review, 92, 1-12.

“Neighborhood heterogeneity and electoral turnout” (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Chiara Monfardini), 2016, Electoral Studies, 42, 146-156. 

“Knowing the right person in the right place: political connections and resistance to change”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Giovanni Prarolo), 2014, Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(3), 641-671.

“Bequest taxes, donations and house prices”, (with Filippo Taddei and Giulio Zanella), 2013, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 13(1), 355-379.

“Political persistence and economic growth”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Giovanni Prarolo), 2013, European Journal of Political Economy, 31, 165-179.

“Persistence of politicians and firms’ innovation”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Giovanni Prarolo), 2013, Economic Inquiry, 51(4), 2056-2070.

“Why not in your backyard? On the location and size of a public facility”, (with Hubert Kempf), 2013, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 43, 22-30.

“Can unions hurt workers? A positive analysis of immigration policy”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 2008, Economics and Politics, 20(1), 106-124.

“Immigration policy, self-selection, and the quality of immigrants”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 2007, Review of International Economics, 15(5), 869-877.

“Income distribution, borrowing constraints and redistributive policies”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 2007, European Economic Review, 51(3), 625-645.

“Special interests and technological change”, (with Gianmarco Ottaviano), 2005, Review of Economic Studies, 72(1), 43-56. Reprinted in “The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship”, volume II, M. Henrekson and R. Douhan eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2008.

“Child labor and resistance to change”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni and Gianmarco Ottaviano), 2005, Economica, 72, 397-411.

“Compulsory schooling laws and the cure for child labour”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 2004, Bulletin of Economic Research, 56(3), 227-239.

 “Financial liberalization, property rights and growth in an overlapping-generations model”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 2000, Review of International Economics, 8(2), 348-359.

“Social security expenditure and economic growth: an empirical assessment”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 2000, Research in Economics, 54(3), 249-275.

“Is social security really bad for growth?”, (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni), 1999, Review of Economic Dynamics , 2, 796-819.

“Aggregate uncertainty, political instability and income redistribution”, 1998, European Journal of Political Economy, 14(1), pp.19-33.


"Who turns out to vote? A fresh look into an old question" (with Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Daniela Iorio, Chiara Monfardini, and Giovanni Prarolo), CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 17819,  https://cepr.org/publications/dp17819