Research

Pubblications in peer-reviewed journals

• The Impact of EU Enlargement on Immigrants' Mental Health (with A. Berlanda, E. Tosetti, G. Vittadini),  accepted at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• The impact of Ethiopian Productive Safety-Net Program on children's educational aspirations and attainments (with A. Gebremariam and G. Pasini), Journal of African Economies, 2023, ejad009, https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejad009 

• Natives and Migrants in Home Production: The Case of Germany  (with E. Forlani and  C. Mendolicchio),   Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 19, 1275-1307, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09480-4

• Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets (with G. Brunello and L. Rocco), Regional Science and Urban Economics,  vol. 85, 103582, 2020.

• Migration's Transfers of Norms. The case of Female Political Empowerment (with S. Salomone),  Journal of Demographic Economics, vol. 86 (4), 435-477, 2020. 

• Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces (with G. Brunello and L. Rocco),  Labour Economics, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101794 .

• The effect of emigration on home-country political institutions, IZA World of Labor, 2016: 307 doi: 10.15185/izawol.307 .

• Emigration and Democracy (with  F. Docquier, H. Rapoport and M. Schiff), Journal of  Development Economics, 120: 209-223 , 2016.

• Revisiting the brain drain literature with insights from a dynamic general equilibrium world model (with L. Marchiori and  I. Shen), The World Economy, 39(4) , 557–573 , 2016.

• The impact of Low Skilled Immigration on Female Labour Supply (with E. Forlani and C.  Mendolicchio), The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117 (2): 452–492, 2015.

• Attracting skilled immigrants: An overview of recent policy developments in advanced countries (with G. Facchini), National Institute Economic Review, 229, R3-R21, 2014.

• Remittances and Financial Openness (with M. Beine and  R. Vermeulen), Regional Science and Urban Economics,  42, 844-857, 2012.

• Skilled migration and business networks (with  F. Docquier), Open Economies Review, 21 (4), 565-588, 2010.

• Diaspora Externalities and Technology Diffusion, International Economics,  115(3),  43-64, 2008.

Pre-doctoral publications

• Social capital, Individual Social Capital and Sustainable Growth in the Industrial Districts (with M. Missaglia and  R. Targetti Lenti), International Review of Economics and Business (RISEC), 51 (2), 221-241, 2004.

Working Papers

• For Children’s Sake: Dynastic Altruism and Parental Migration Intentions (with A. Frigo and S. Salomone), LIDAM Discussion Paper IRES 2021/30 (R&R Journal of Economic Geography, 2nd round). 

Permanent Working Paper

• Diaspora Externalities as a Cornerstone of the New Brain Drain Literature, IRES DP, 2009-36.  

Chapters in books

• “International Immigration and Female Labour Supply” (with E. Forlani and C. Mendolicchio), Ch. 3 In "International Migration: Politics, Policies and Practices", NPS, New York, USA, 2016, Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-63485-029-2.

Book Review

• Book Review, J. Corcoran, A. Faggian (2017) eds. Graduate Migration and Regional Development.  An International Perspective. in "Scienze Regionali, Italian Journal of Regional Science" 2/2019, pp. 355-360.

Other Publications

• "Migrantinnen und Haushaltsdienstleistungen: Zuwanderung beeinflusst das Arbeitsangebot der einheimischen Frauen" (with E.Forlani, C. Mendolicchio, P.Trübswetter) Kurzbericht 3/2018, pp. 1-6 (ISSN: 0942-167X)