Research

Publications and working papers

The Long Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant, with Corinna Ghirelli, Elena Meroni, Stefano Verzillo. IZA Discussion Paper 16108, 2023.

A non-technical summary of the paper is here: IZA Newsroom

Conferences: 6th International conference on European Economics and Politics (Zurich, expected), 2024 MEA conference/SOLE (Chicago), 2023 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore), Seminars: the University of Barcelona, University Pablo de Olavide, University of Surrey

Shall I try it again or maybe later? The number of exam sessions and university dropout, with Massimiliano Bratti and Silvia Granato. Available upon request.

Conferences: EALE conference 2023 (Prague), ESPE conference 2024 (scheduled)

The Intergenerational Effects of War on Education: Evidence from the World War II in Europe, 2020 with Franco Peracchi. European Commission, JRC WP Series in Economics and Finance, 2019/4 (Early version).

Presented at: ECINEQ 2023 (Aix-en-Provence), AEA Meeting 2019 (Atlanta), NBER Spring Meetings 2020 (Selected)

Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Outcomes: Evidence from Erasmus, with Silvia Granato, Gianluca Mazzarella, Sylke Schnepf 2021. Economics of Education Review, Vol 99, April 2024, Forthcoming.
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia with Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, and Giulia Santangelo. Journal of Population Economics , Vol. 35, pp 677-717 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00877-8
Do Producer Organisations improve dairy farm performance and contractual arrangements? Evidence from selected EU countries with Federica Di Marcantonio, Liesbeth Colen and Pavel Ciaian. Agricultural Economics, Vol. 53, Issue S1, pp 121-137 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00877-8
The intergenerational effects of birth order on education, with Marco Savegnago. Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 35, 349–377 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00810-5
Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting with Massimiliano Bratti, Claudio Deiana, Gianluca Mazzarella, Elena Meroni. Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 120, November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2020.103290

***Ezio Tarantelli Prize 2018 for best paper in Labour Economics*** Motivation

The Use of Quantitative Methods in the Policy Cycle in Science for Policy Handbook, July 2020 European Union. Published by Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822596-7.00018-8.
Does on-the-job training help graduates find a job? Evidence from an Italian region, with Corinna Ghirelli, Giulia Santangelo, Marta Scettri. International Journal of Manpower, 2019 Vol. 40, Issue: 3, pp.500-524. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-02-2018-0062
Growing up in wartime. Evidence from the era of two world wars, with Franco Peracchi. Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 25, May 2017, pp 9-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2016.09.002
Can we trust older people's statements on their childhood circumstances? Evidence from SHARELIFE, with Fabrizio Mazzonna. European Journal of Population, Vol. 31, May 2015, Issue 3, pp 233-257. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10680-014-9332-y

Work in progress

Several projects on education.

Book chapters

Learning and Human Development with Silvia Granato and Sylke V. Schnepf in Àlvaro Choi (ed), Educational Foundations, Volume 5: Economic Foundations of Education, Bloomsbury, London 2023.
Is there a European land of opportunity? Cross-country differences in intergenerational mobility in 14 European countries and Israel, with Liudmila Antonova, Luis Aranda, Noemi Pace. In Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society, Chapter: 19, pp 209-222.

Policy reports

Monitoring multidimensional inequalities in the European Union. JRC Science for Policy Report, May 2021. Chapter 5, joint with Marco Fregoni (University of Milan) and Jan Stuhler (Carlos III Madrid).
The intergenerational transmission of education and income in the EU: evidence from survey and administrative data, joint with Jan Stuhler (Carlos III Madrid). May 2021. European Commission.
Vocational training and labour market outcomes. Evidence from Youth Guarantee in Latvia, with Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, Giulia Santangelo. JRC Science for Policy Report, September 2018, DOI: 10.2760/571879 (online)
Counterfactual Impact Evaluation of the “Work Experience Laureati e Laureate – WELL”. The impact of an ESF-funded intervention in Umbria region, Italy, with Corinna Ghirelli, Giulia Santangelo and Marta Scettri. JRC Science for Policy Report, August 2017, DOI: 10.2760/01166 (online)
Does On-the-job Training Help Unemployed Find a Job? Evidence from an Italian region, with Corinna Ghirelli (Bank of Spain), Giulia Santangelo (European Commission) and Marta Scettri (Statistics and Evaluation Office Umbria), JRC Working Paper 2018-14.