Research
Research
Published
Work
[1]Massimo Pulejo. 2025. "Private Response to Exclusionary Welfare Policy: Evidence from Italian Municipalities". Journal of Public Economics, 248(August 2025): 105425. Winner, Fondi Franceschi 2020 by Fondazione Roberto Franceschi [Awarded €3,000] [PDF] [Coverage: Fondazione Franceschi]
[2]Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín (NYU). 2025. "Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence". NBER Working Paper N. 31586. Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. [Ungated PDF] [Coverage: Splash Podcast]
[3]Massimo Pulejo. 2024. "Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy". American Journal of Political Science, 68(4): 1498-1513. [WP Version] [Replication Package]
[4]Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín (NYU). 2021. "Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic". Journal of Public Economics, 198(June 2021): 104387. [Coverage: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, EGAP] [Replication Package]
[5]Massimo Pulejo. 2021. "Quo Vadis? Refugee Centers and the Geographic Expansion of Far-Right Parties". Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2(3): 347-364. [Coverage: Melting Pot Europa] [WP Version] [Replication Package]
Working
Papers
[1]Gianmarco Daniele (University of Milan), Gemma Dipoppa (Brown), and Massimo Pulejo. "Violence against Women in Politics". CEPR Discussion Paper, No. DP18333. [Ungated PDF] [Coverage: Vox EU, VoxTalks Economics Podcast, The Conversation UK, La Repubblica, Lavoce.info, ELLE Magazine, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Vanity Fair, TV2000(Podcast), Cosmo Italiano(Podcast)]
[2]Massimo Pulejo and Luca Vitale (NYU). "The Political Economy of Religious Spending". BAFFI-CAREFIN Working Paper N. 234, October 2024.
Work in
Progress
[1]Massimo Pulejo. "Follow My Lead: State- and Citizen-Level Contrast to Organized Crime". Winner, Bando Giovani Ricercatori by Fondazione Cariplo [Awarded €87,678].
[2]Carlo Medici (Northwestern) and Massimo Pulejo. "Patronage, Careers, and Performance in the Federal Civil Service: Evidence from U.S. Judges, 1789-2023".