Research

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Ongoing work 

• Gendered change:  150 years of transformation in US hours (with Rachel Ngai and Claudia Olivetti)

• The evolution of gender in the labor market (with Claudia Olivetti and Jessica Pan). Accepted, Handbook of Labor Economics (C. Dustmann and T. Lemieux eds.), vol. 5. 

• Birth timing and spacing: Implications for parental leave dynamics and child penalties (with Abi Adams and Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen)

• When non-natives compete for top schools: Displacement and peer effects in primary education (with Elisa Facchetti, Francesco Fasani and Elisabetta Pasini)

• Internet diffusion, telecommuting and female labour supply (with Marco Manacorda, Rosa Sanchis-Guarner and Tommaso Valletti) 

Publications

• The Contribution of Employee-Led and Employer-Led Work Flexibility to the Motherhood Wage Gap (with Abi Adams and Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen). Forthcoming, AEA Papers & Proceedings.

• Vacancy duration and wages (with Ihsaan Bassier and Alan Manning). Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.

• Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle (with Felix Koenig and Alan Manning).  Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.

• Taxes, childcare and gender identity norms (with Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson and Peter Skogman-Thoursie).  Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics. 

• Families, labor markets and policy (with Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti). 

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, (S. Lundberg and A. Voena eds.), vol. 1, ch. 5: 255-317, 2023 . 

• Men are from Mars and women too: A Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments (with Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh and Michelle Rao)

Economica 89: S38-S70, 2022.

• Work, care and gender during the Covid-19 crisis (with Claudia Hupkau)

Fiscal Studies 41: 623-651, 2020

[Featured in The Independent, The Independent, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, BBC]

• Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets (with Maddalena Ronchi)

Labour Economics 64, 2020.

• Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a welfare reform (with Felix Koenig, John Van Reenen and Nitika Bagaria)

Economic Journal 129: 3189-3218, 2019

• How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model (with Alan Manning)

American Economic Review 107: 2877-2907, 2017. [Lead article]

• Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy (with Rachel Ngai). [note]

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 9: 1-44, 2017. [Lead article]

2018 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award

[Featured in The Guardian]

• The economic consequences of family policies. Drawing lessons from a century of legislation across OECD countries (with Claudia Olivetti)

Journal of Economic Perspectives 31: 205-230, 2017.

[Featured in New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC]

• The evolution of the gender gap in industrialized countries(with Claudia Olivetti)

Annual Review of Economics 8: 405-434, 2016.

• Gender gaps across countries and skills: Demand, supply and the industry structure (with Claudia Olivetti)

Review of Economic Dynamics 17: 842-859, 2014.

• Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply (with Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin)

American Economic Review 104: 252-276, 2014.

• Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments? (with Ghazala Azmat)

Labour Economics 30: 32-40, 2014.

• Job and wage mobility with minimum wages and imperfect compliance (with Zvi Eckstein and Suqin Ge)

Journal of Applied Econometrics 26: 580-612, 2011.

• The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform

Journal of Public Economics 93: 1234-1253, 2009.

• Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps (with Claudia Olivetti)

Journal of Labor Economics 26: 621-654, 2008.

• The ins and outs of European unemployment (with Christopher Pissarides).

American Economic Review, P&P 98: 256-262, 2008.

• A test between stock-flow matching and the random matching function approach (with Melvyn Coles).

International Economic Review 49: 1113-1141, 2008.

• The part-time penalty for women in Britain (with Alan Manning).

Economic Journal 118: F28-F51, 2008.

• How binding are legal limits? Transitions for temporary to permanent work in Spain (with Maia Güell).

Labour Economics 14: 153-183, 2007.

[Featured in El Pais]

• Regional mismatch and unemployment: Theory and evidence from Italy, 1977-1998 (with Marco Manacorda)

Journal of Population Economics 19: 137-162, 2006.

• Scale effects in markets with search (with Christopher Pissarides).

Economic Journal 116: 21-44, 2005.

• Stock-flow matching and the performance of the labor market (with Paul Gregg)

European Economic Review 49: 1087-2011, 2005.

• Gender segregation in employment contracts

Journal of the European Economic Association, P&P, 2: 331-345, 2004.

• Re-employment probabilities and returns to matching

Journal of Labor Economics 19: 716-741, 2001.

• Looking into the black-box: A survey of the matching function (with Christopher Pissarides).

Journal of Economic Literature 39: 390-431, 2001.

• "Firing costs and stigma: A theoretical analysis and empirical evidence on micro data" (with Patrizia Canziani).

European Economic Review 45: 1877-1906, 2001.

• Skill mismatch and unemployment in OECD countries (with Marco Manacorda)

Economica 66: 181-207, 1999.

• Staying-on at school at 16: The impact of labor market conditions in Spain (with Maria Jesus San Segundo)

Economics of Education Review 21: 353-365, 2002.