Recent Working papers

Financial knowledge and career aspirations among the young: a route to entrepreneurship, with Sara Lamboglia, Noemi Oggero and Massimiliano Stacchini, Banca d'Italia Occasional Papers, 838, 2024

Bosses’ Impatience and Digital Technologies, con Stefania Basiglio e Andrea Ricci, INAPP working paper 98, 2023 

Main Publications - 2013 onwards

Books 

1. Finanza sostenibile per il lavoro e per il welfare, with R. Salomone e Costanza Torricelli, Il Mulino, 2023

2. Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa . Learning from Togo, with Hans Hoogeveen, Palgrave Macmillan,  2019 

3. Wealth and Homeownership. Women, Men and Families, with Eva Sierminska, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Papers

1. How entry into parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from Longitudinal UK Data, with E. Grinza, F. Devicienti, D. Vannoni, Feminist Economics, accepted for publication, 2021

2. Retirement of the self-employed in the Netherlands. with A. Nagore García and A. van Soest, Small Business Economics 56 (2021) , 385–402 

3. Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter? (2021), with A. Colombelli, E. Grinza and V. Meliciani, Economic Geography, 97:1, 1-33 

4. Saving with a Social Impact:Evidence from Trento Province, with S. Basiglio, R. Salomone and C. Torricelli, Sustainability (2020) , 12, 8363 

5. Pension communication,  knowledge, and behaviour. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, with Debets, S., Prast, H., and A. Van Soest, A. published online (2020) 

6.  Women and  men's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19,  Review of the Economics of the Household 18, 1001–1017 (2020).,with D. Del Boca, N.Oggero, P.Profeta. 

7. Female entrepreneurship in the digital era. Small Business Economics 55, 305–312 (2020), with E. Ughetto, D. Audretsch and E. Lehmann.

8. Entrepreneurial spirits in women and men . The role of financial literacy and digital skills. Small Business Economics 55, 313–327 (2020) . with N.Oggero and E.Ughetto

9. Household preferences for socially responsible investments (2019), with Dario Sansone, Arthur van Soest, Costanza Torricelli, Journal of Banking & Finance,  107-120, Volume 105

10. Leaving, Staying, or Coming Back? Migration Decisions during the Northern Mali Conflict, with Hans Hoogeveen and Dario Sansone, Journal of Development Studies , (2019)  55:10, 2089-2105 . Summary of the paper appeared on the World Bank Research Digest, Volume 12, No. 3, Spring 2018

11. Four Bright Coins Shining at Me: Financial Education in Childhood, Financial Confidence in Adulthood, (2019) with E. Fornero and D. Sansone,  Journal of Consumer Affairs, vol. 53(2), 630-651 

12. The family as an informal market and the (low) mobility of Italian young, with F. Coda Moscarola and E. Fornero, Politica Economica, Journal of Economic Policy,1/2018, 45-78

13. Precautionary Savings and the Self-Employed, with Dario Sansone, Small Business and Economics, 2018, vol. 51, issue 1, 105-127

14. Who wants to have their home and eat it too? Interest in reverse mortgages in the Netherlands, with R. Dillingh, H. Prast and C. Urzì Brancati, Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 38, December 2017, 25-37

15. Liquidity constraints and labor supply, (2016), with Serena Trucchi, European Economic Review,  2016,  (87) 176–193

16. Explaining why, right or wrong, Italian Households do not like reverse mortgages, with E. Fornero and C. Urzì Brancati,  2016, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, ( 15), 180-202

17. Life Insurance Demand: Evidence from Italian Households; A Micro-Economic View and Gender Issue (2016), with E. Luciano and F. Outreville Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Issues and Practice, 41 (3),  468-490

18. Do Women prefer pink? The effect of a gender stereotypical stock portfolio on investing decisions, with H. Prast, C. Torricelli and D. Sansone, Journal of Economic Policy (Politica Economica), 3/2015, 377- 420

19. Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement, with G. Peri and A. Romiti , Labour Economics, 2015, Vol. 36, No. October,  18-34

20. Reverse Mortgage: a tool to reduce old age poverty without sacrificing social inclusion,  with F. Coda Moscarola, A. D’Addio and E. Fornero, in Axel Börsch-Supan, Thorsten Kneip, Howard Litwin, Michał Myck and Guglielmo Weber  Aging in Europe-Supportive Policies for an inclusive society

21. (Un)Expected Retirement and the Consumption Puzzle, with M. Borella and F. Coda Moscarola, Empirical Economics,  47(2),  733-751, 2014

22. The Persistence Of Income Poverty And Life-style Deprivation: Evidence From Italy, with Devicienti, F.; Gualtieri, V. Bulletin of Economic Research, vol 66, issue 3, 217–312, 2014

23. Enrolment and Grade Attainment following the Introduction of Free Primary Education in Tanzania, with H. Hoogeveen, Journal of African Economies, 22(3) 375-393, 2013

24. Liquidity Constraints, Uncertain Parental Income and Human Capital Accumulation, with F. Devicienti, Applied Economics Letters, no. 20,  826-829, 2013.