RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
"Thinking about parents: Gender and Field of Study" with M. Carlana
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024. [PDF]
"Child Marriage as Informal Insurance: Empirical Evidence and Policy Simulations" with A. Voena.
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 162, May 2023. [PDF]
"Interactions, Stereotypes and Performance. Evidence from South Africa" with E. La Ferrara and J. Burns.
American Economic Review, Volume 112, Issue 12. December 2022. [PDF] [ON LINE APPENDIX]
Media: J-Pal
"HIV, Risk and Time Preferences: Evidence from a general population sample in Lesotho" with M. Bjorkman Nyqvist, D. de Walque, J. Svensson.
Health Economics, Volume 31, Issue 5, February 2022. [PDF]
"Weather shocks, Age of marriage and the Direction of marriage payments" with N. Hildebrandt and A. Voena.
Econometrica, Volume 88, Issue 3, May 2020. [PDF] [APPENDIX] [ONLINE APPENDIX]
Media: IndianPress, VoxDev, Microeconomic Insight
"Risky sexual behavior: biological markers and self-reported data" with A. de Paula.
Economica, 86 (342), pp.229-261, 2018. [PDF]
Media: VoxEU, Development Impact Blog
"Incentivizing safer sexual behaviour: Evidence from a randomized control trial on HIV prevention" with M. Bjorkman-Nyqvist, D. de Walque, J. Svensson.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (3), pp.287-314, 2018. [PDF] [ONLINE APPENDIX]
"Homelessness and crime: do your friends matter?".
The Economic Journal, 127 (602), pp. 959-995, 2017. [PDF]
"Learning (or not) in health seeking behavior: Evidence from rural Tanzania".
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63 (1), pp. 27-72, 2014. [PDF]
"Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa" with D. de Walque.
Journal of African Economies, 21 (3), pp. 465-498, 2012. [PDF]
"Being homeless: Evidence from Italy", with M. Braga.
Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 70 (3), 2011. [PDF]
Media: Sole24Ore, La Repubblica, Libero
WORKING PAPERS
"Female Genital Cutting and the Slave Trade" with E. La Ferrara and A. Voena.
CEPR Discussion Paper 15577, December 2020. [PDF]
Media: The Telegraph
"Shaping Gender-Stereotypical Beliefs: The Role of Peers" with M. Carlana.
CEPR Discussion Paper 26641, September 2021.
[New Version Coming Soon]
"Informing Risky Migrants: Evidence from a field experiment in Guinea" with G. Battiston and E. La Ferrara.
[New Version Coming Soon]
"The determinants of HIV infection and related sexual behaviors: Evidence from Lesotho" with D. de Walque.
Policy Research Working Paper #4421, The World Bank, December 2007. [PDF]
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Norms Replacement and Information. A field experiment on ending Female Genital Cutting" with E. La Ferrara
"Breast-Ironing, Breast feeding and Child mortality"
"Peers in Action: An experiment on Female Genital Cutting and Child Marriage" with S. Gulesci
PUBLICATIONS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE
"Socio-economic determinants of stigmatization and HIV testing in Lesotho" with Damien de Walque
AIDS Care, Suppl 1: S108-13, 2013. [PDF]
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Globalizzazione, diseguaglianza e povertà" (with R. Crino')
Vita e Pensiero, No. 8, edited by Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano 2017.
"Social protection programs in Uganda and Botswana"
European Report on Development, European University Institute, Fiesole 2010.
"Milano e Torino, sguardo sugli homeless" (with M. Braga)
Vita e Pensiero, No. 5, edited by Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano 2010.
"La povertà invisibile dei senza casa. L'approccio economico alla homelessness" with M. Braga and T. Boeri
in "Homelessness e dialogo interdisciplinare. Modelli e interpretazioni a confronto", Carocci, Roma, 2009.
PUBLICATIONS IN THE POPOLAR PRESS
"Does pay for performance work?"
Centre for Government and Leadership, Queen Mary, University of London, 14-11-2013
"Senza casa. E invisibili" with M. Braga
La Voce, 17-02-2012
"Senza tetto, ma non senza speranza" with M. Braga
La Voce, 20-01-2009
GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS: [Google Scholar Citations]